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Robison_M@crane.navy.mil> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003
5:55 AM Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Burke's Civil War Novel
> James Reasoner wrote:
> I was just wondering if any of you have read James
Lee Burke's
> recent Civil War novel WHITE DOVES AT
MORNING.
>
> *************
> I haven't read it, but I've been feeling the need to
read
> something else by him. Last Civil War novel I read
was
> Frazier's COLD MOUNTAIN, an excellent, and very
hardboiled,
> book. He really cuts loose from the cliches, I
think.
> There aren't any battle scenes, the romance is
portrayed
> as bumbling and awkward for both people, and the
violence
> comes hard, fast, and mean. The ending is superb.
I've
> been waiting for him to come out with something
new.
>
> You've got a bunch of Civil War books out, haven't
you,
> James? If I recall, most of it is
nonfiction.
>
> miker
No, all my Civil War stuff is fiction, though (I hope) pretty
accurate historically.
I haven't read COLD MOUNTAIN, but Burke's book is also rather
hardboiled, as you might expect. Not just the battle scenes,
but everyday life in Union-occupied Louisiana during the war
and Reconstruction afterward. The characters are all supposed
to have existed and include some of Burke's ancestors. Don't
know how much is true, but it reads like it could have
been.
James
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