Burke, James Lee, 1936-
Flags on the bayou : a novel / James Lee Burke. - First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 310 pages ; 24 cm
Booklist, June 01, 2023 Publishers Weekly, May 22, 2023 Kirkus Reviews, May 01, 2023 Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--
9780802161697 $28.00
2023009525
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Plantations--Fiction.
Southern States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3552.U723 / F53 2023
813/.54
Flags on the bayou : a novel / James Lee Burke. - First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 310 pages ; 24 cm
Booklist, June 01, 2023 Publishers Weekly, May 22, 2023 Kirkus Reviews, May 01, 2023 Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--
9780802161697 $28.00
2023009525
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Plantations--Fiction.
Southern States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3552.U723 / F53 2023
813/.54