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
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]

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