Confederates (novel)

Confederates
First edition cover
Author	Thomas Keneally
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publisher	Collins, England and Australia Harper & Row (US)
Publication date	1979
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	427 pp
ISBN	0-00-222141-1
OCLC	6090459
Dewey Decimal	823
LC Class	PZ4.K336 Co 1979 PR9619.3.K46
Preceded by	Passenger
Followed by	The Cut-Rate Kingdom

Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.

Confederates uses the United States Civil War as a setting for a more personal conflict between neighbors. In the midst of the war's climactic battle -- Antietam—another conflict is underway. Ephie Bumpass' husband Usaph and Ephie's lover Decatur Cate are thrown together to fight in the Shenandoah Volunteers. Cate's emasculating injury in the battle is a symbolic punishment for his sin.^[1]

Awards and nominations

Man Booker Prize: shortlisted 1979

External links

"The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally" by Peter Pierce, Australian Literary Studies vol.12 no.4 October 1986 (pp. 442–452)

References

↑ Thomas Keneally

Novels by Thomas Keneally

The Place at Whitton (1964)
The Fear (1965)
Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
The Survivor (1969)
A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
Gossip from the Forest (1975)
Season in Purgatory (1976)
A Victim of the Aurora (1978)
Passenger (1979)
Confederates (1979)
The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
Schindler's Ark (1982)
A Family Madness (1985)
The Playmaker (1987)
Act of Grace (1985)
By the Line (1989)
Towards Asmara (1989)
Flying Hero Class (1991)
Chief of Staff (1991)
Woman of the Inner Sea (1993)
Jacko: The Great Intruder (1993)
A River Town (1995)
Bettany's Book (2000)
An Angel in Australia (2000)
The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
The Widow and Her Hero (2007)
The People's Train (2009)
The Daughters of Mars (2012)
Shame and the Captives (2014)
Napoleon's Last island (2015)

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