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Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood limned with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house, and the inevitable distress that befalls his mother whenever letters arrive from her parents. In hopes of reconciling the familial disunion, Liberty escapes--first into the cauldron of war and then into a bedlam more disturbing still. In a vibrant display of literary achievement, Stephen Wright brings us a Civil War novel unlike any other.
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John Walker
reviewed The Amalgamation Polka on April 11, 2015
The Amalgamation Polka
A random read: I pulled it off the library shelf for its title, kept it for the cover art and the Civil War setting. The story was engaging but the writing is intolerable. "Be prepared for a lot of rereading," warns the jacket copy, "due to the vibrant beauty and savory brilliance of every paragraph." What? I don't know what all these gushing reviewers are talking about: Rushdie is "rich"; Wright is overwrought; Diaz is "idiosyncratic"; Wright's just a dude with a thesaurus and tendency to ornament every sentence that'll sit still long enough to take on a few more clauses for decoration.
This book also features terrible dialect and battle scenes like a Warner Brothers cartoon. Nope.
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