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The Amalgamation Polka

The Amalgamation Polka

The Amalgamation Polka
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The Amalgamation Polka Trade paperback - 2020

by Stephen Wright

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Back Bay Books, January 2020. Trade Paperback. VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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  • Title The Amalgamation Polka
  • Author Stephen Wright
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - VG
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books
  • Publication date January 2020
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1243056
  • ISBN 9780316427326 / 0316427322
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
    • Topical: Civil War
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Slavery
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for The Amalgamation Polka

From the publisher

A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart.

Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant of both Carolina slaveholders and New York abolitionists. In hopes of reconciling the warring strands of his heritage, he escapes his home in the North -- first into the cauldron of the Civil War, and then into the even more disturbing bedlam that follows.

The Amalgamation Polka showcases not only the brutality of this tragic passage in American history, but also its surprising compassion and hope. In language both true to its time and completely modern, it is revelatory and mesmerizing, a novel that "will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." (Jason McBride, the Village Voice).

About the author

Stephen Wright is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the author of four previous novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City.
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