Foote, Shelby

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Shelby Foote took on a history of the Civil War as a brief project in between novels -- it turned into a 20-year, three-volume opus. Though known now for his Civil War nonfiction, Foote is also an accomplished novelist who excels at complex, first-person narrative fiction with a Southern flair. His novels, based on locales in his home state of Mississippi, portray through their detailed characterization the social and political landscape and transition of the Old and New South while examining themes of racism, loneliness and morality, tragedy and love. Start with: Follow Me Down (Fiction); The Civil War (Nonfiction)
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Foote, Shelby
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Shelby Foote took on a history of the Civil War as a brief project in between novels -- it turned into a 20-year, three-volume opus. Though known now for his Civil War nonfiction, Foote is also an accomplished novelist who excels at complex, first-person narrative fiction with a Southern flair. His novels, based on locales in his home state of Mississippi, portray through their detailed characterization the social and political landscape and transition of the Old and New South while examining themes of racism, loneliness and morality, tragedy and love. Start with: Follow Me Down (Fiction); The Civil War (Nonfiction)
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