Tournament

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Summa Publications, Inc., 1987 - 238 страници
Tournament is Shelby Foote's first novel, published originally by Dial Press in 1949. Summa's reprint includes an exclusive preface by the author concerning his literary development and the genesis of Tournament and an introduction by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., the dean of American literature criticism. Tournament is a brilliant novel of the post-Civil War South, replete with Proustian and Faulknerian overtones. Many of the characters that appear in subsequent novels by Shelby Foote come onto the scene for the first time in this work. It is a must acquisition for every fan of Shelby Foote--From item description.
 

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ASA BARTS WAY
9
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
11
CHAPTER ONE RISE PAGE 1
xxx
CHAPTER TWO SOLITAIRE PAGE
31
CHAPTER THREE THE LAKE PAGE
66
CHAPTER FOUR THE RIVER PAGE
92
CHAPTER FIVE THE HUNT PAGE
120
CHAPTER SIX THE SALE PAGE
151
CHAPTER SEVEN BRISTOL PAGE
179
CHAPTER EIGHT FALL PAGE
212
ASA
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Tournament
Shelby Foote
Фрагменти - 1949
Tournament
Shelby Foote
Фрагменти - 1949

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Информация за автора (1987)

Author and historian Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi on November 17, 1916. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and served with the U.S. Army artillery during World War II. He was dismissed in 1944 for using a government vehicle against regulations. He later enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, but did not see active duty. After being discharged from the military, he briefly became a journalist. He has written short stories, plays, and longer works, but is best known for his three-volume narrative history of the Civil War. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1958, 1959, and 1960, a Ford Foundation grant in 1963, and the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1988. He appeared in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. He died at home in Memphis, Tennessee on June 27, 2005.

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ЗаглавиеTournament
АвторShelby Foote
Изданиепреработено
ИздателSumma Publications, Inc., 1987
ISBN0917786564, 9780917786563
Брой страници238 страници
  
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