Secessia : a novel

Resource Information

The work Secessia : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Secessia : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Kent Wascom

Creator

• Wascom, Kent, 1986-

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc

Author

• Wascom, Kent, 1986-

Subject

• Conspiracies -- Fiction
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Family crises -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• Louisiana -- New Orleans
• 1775 - 1865
• New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
• Southern States
• Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
• Mothers and sons -- Fiction
• Conspiracies

Genre

• Historical fiction
• History
• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "The Beast" Butler. The city is rife with madness and rage. When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother, Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father, Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past, Dr. Emile Sabatier, a fanatical physician who adores disease and is deeply mired in the conspiracy and intrigue surrounding the occupation of the city. Their paths all intersect with General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, a man who history will call a beast, but whose avarice and brutal acumen are ideally suited to the task of governing an ungovernable city. Alternating between the perspectives of the five characters of Elise, Dr. Sabatier, Joseph, Marina, and Butler, Secessia weaves a tapestry of ravenous greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, set within the baroque melting-pot that is New Orleans. A Gothic tableaux vivant of epic scope and intimate horror, Secessia is the netherworld reflection of the conflict between north and south

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3623.A8665

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries