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Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead
Michael Drinkard
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9780151011193 Hardcover
0151011192
$24.00
288pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2005
Territory:
US, C, O
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Synopsis |
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In his cannabis-infused pipe dreams, Salt imagines himself a man of independent means, rather than a Yankee hemp farmer under the thumb of his Tory father-in-law. Then Salt's teenage son shoots a British officer, and the Revolutionary War comes home, bringing both danger and unexpected freedoms.
Forced to flee his farm and family, Salt is taken captive on a prison ship off the shore of Brooklyn, where he finds himself in unplanned pursuit of something that might just be happiness. With her husband on this odyssey, Molly embarks upon her own war of independence, from the chronic disappointments and long-rehearsed roles of marriage. And under the unlikely wing of the British army, son James begins to come of age along with his country.
Based on real events, Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead is a historical novel with a decidedly contemporary sensibility and a fresh take on the many meanings of liberty.
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"Drinkard is a gifted writer who mixes irony, rollicking humor, and high drama . . . A well-drawn historical fiction."
Booklist,
"Playful, funny, brisk, beautiful. A genuinely rousing adventure told at full gallop with a unique contemporary spirit."
Bret Easton Ellis,
"A bold, audacious, and thoroughly enjoyable novel, about an all-too-forgotten moment in American history."
Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley,
"An imaginative, unique take on American history, charged with the subtleties of shifting and treacherous loyalties, and all wonderfully human."
Kirkus Reviews,1/15/2006
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Biography |
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MICHAEL DRINKARD holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University and is the author of Green Bananas and Disobedience: A Novel. He lives in Brooklyn.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Historical
Fiction- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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First Serial/Second Serial/Reprint: Harcourt
Audio/Performance/UK/Translation: Cynthia Cannell Literary Agency
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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