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Land where my fathers died / Joe Edd Morris.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.O773 L36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Joe E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Mexico--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Mexico.
- Judicial error--Fiction.
- Judicial error.
- Ex-convicts--Fiction.
- Ex-convicts.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Context Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Just weeks before his release from prison for a murder he didnt commit, Jo Shelby Ferguson loses his only remaining relatives in a highway accident. When hes released from jail, he inherits an old trunk containing preCivil War family possessions. Among the artifacts are several bundles of letters written by his great-great-great-grandmother chronicling the familys flight to Mexico with General Jo Shelby of Missouri following the collapse of the Confederacy. With only 40 dollars in his pocket and a note containing the name of a hacienda, Jo Shelby the younger strikes out for Mexico, following the same route as his namesake. This absorbing road novel about one man's search for identity was a semifinalist in the 1998 Pirates Alley Faulkner Prizes for Fiction.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 189395627X
- OCLC:
- 48710855
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