{"product_id":"sharpshooter-a-novel-of-the-civil-war-paperback","title":"Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Madden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping and thought-provoking work that is unlike any Civil War novel previously written, \u003ci\u003eSharpshooter\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the mind of one of the war's veterans as he attempts, years after the conflict, to reconstruct his experiences and to find some measure of meaning in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child of the divided East Tennessee mountain region, Willis Carr left home at age thirteen to follow his father and brothers on a bridge-burning mission for the Union cause. Imprisoned at Knoxville, he agreed to join the Confederate army to avoid being hanged and became a sharpshooter serving under General Longstreet. He survived several major battles, including Gettysburg, and eventually found himself guarding prisoners at the infamous Andersonville stockade, where a former slave taught him to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, haunted by his memories, Carr writes down his story, revisits the battlefields, studies photographs and drawings, listens to other veterans as they tell their stories, and pores over memoirs and other books. Above all, he imbues whatever he hears, sees, and reads with his emotions, his imagination, and his intellect. Yet, even as an old man nearing death, he still feels that he has somehow missed the war, that something essential about it has eluded him. Finally, in a searing moment of personal revelation, a particular memory, long suppressed, rises to the surface of Carr's consciousness and draws his long quest to a poignant close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling work of fiction from a writer who is both a gifted novelist and a distinguished student of the Civil War, David Madden's \u003ci\u003eSharpshooter\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to see this signal episode in American history in a new way--to grasp its facts, to imagine what facts cannot convey, and to make the war our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Madden\u003c\/b\u003e, currently director of the U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University, has won high praise for his previous novels and short-story collections, which include \u003ci\u003eThe New Orleans of Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleasure Dome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Big Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBijou\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCassandra Singing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Greed\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written and edited numerous books of criticism and has taught creative writing at various colleges and universities. He is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.07 x 5.53 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137840988299,"sku":"9781572334502","price":39.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/4w2wh_zQ_r9781572334502.webp?v=1780661120","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/sharpshooter-a-novel-of-the-civil-war-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}