Canaan: A Novel

Canaan: A Novel

â€œA bred-in-the-bones storyteller.â€â€”Geraldine Brooks
Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men makes fortunes speculating on the warâ€™s consequences; a Virginia plantation, where the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer rides to his fate against Sitting Bullâ€™s warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloudâ€™s banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn. â€œMcCaigâ€™s extensive research is revealed in the bookâ€™s rich historical detail and revisionist perspective. Black life in Reconstruction-era Virginia is portrayed particularly well.â€â€”Library Journal
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393330465
ReleaseDate 2008-02-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393330465

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