"The Blood of Heaven" is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of...
"The Blood of Heaven" is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a chari...
From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and diseaseCivil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance, spanning one year in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered south. New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin the Beast Butler. When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he terrifies...
From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and diseaseCivil ...
