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The amalgamation polka
By Wright, Stephen J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67945-117-4
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2005
Liberty Fish embodies the national dilemma: he was raised by Northern abolitionists, but his mother's family owns a slave plantation in South Carolina. Wright (Meditations in Green ) provides a panoramic history of the Civil War era in a series of brilliant set pieces, narrating Fish's story in a comically bombastic version of 19th-century vernacular that recalls Charles Portis's True Grit (1968). As the novel unfolds, Fish travels alon...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
