Daren Dean

Broschiertes Buch

The Black Harvest

Beschreibung

In The Black Harvest young Ashby Marchbanks finds himself disillusioned with the regular Army in Missouri after it suffers a crushing defeat at Wilson's Creek during the Civil War. Forced to take the loyalty oath and return home in Howard County near Glasgow, he attempts to follow his father's footsteps and attend William Jewell College where he will labor over the Word of God. It's not long before Charles Jennison's Red Legs come to call, and after hanging his father and terrorizing his family, Marchbanks is shot and left for dead. Ashby (or "Preacher") falls in with the infamous Captain Quantrill's bushwhackers, who fight battles on their own terms without the sanction of Jefferson Davis and the impromptu Confederate government. Preacher becomes well acquainted with Frank James and his younger brother Jesse. They fight together with many others who would become notorious in their own right under another violent young chieftain, Captain Bloody Bill Anderson. This is all out war where outnumbered guerrillas wear stolen Federal blue and bushwhack their enemies in a war fought at close range, bristling with Navy Colts. Theirs is a war for survival on the bloody border where violence between Kansas and Missouri began long before Fort Sumter. A wild and compelling tale, it captures the complexity of the era, and evokes an epic all but lost to history. It was a time of violence, outlaws, and virtual anarchy. As the country became distracted by the accumulation of military defeats of the Confederacy in the South. Jayhawker Federals and Missouri Bushwhackers went head to head in an increasingly violent war.

Autor

Daren Dean is the author of the novel Far Beyond the Pale. His debut short story collection, I'll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone was released in 2019. His novel, The Black Harvest, is forthcoming at the University of West Alabama's Livingston Press. His story "Bring Your Sorrow Over Here" was selected as Runner-up by Judge George Singleton in Yemassee's William Richey Short Fiction contest. Another story, "Affliction" was a Finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest for New Writers in 2012. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, BULL (Men's Fiction), Maryland Literary Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Ecotone, Image, Midwestern Gothic, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Red Dirt Forum, Yemassee, Delta Poetry Review, The Oklahoma Review, Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Bloom, and others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. In the past, he worked in scholarly publishing at the University of Missouri Press and, more recently, he taught in the English department at LSU in Baton Rouge. Currently, he's an Assistant Professor of English at Lincoln University of Missouri.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9781604892703
• ISBN-10: 1604892706
• Artikelnr.: 62374459