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