The Light Infantry Ball

Basso, Hamilton.

ISBN 10: 9997557700 / ISBN 13: 9789997557704

Published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1959

First Edition. No DJ. Unread. Previous owner name inked on front free page: Kathleen Pomeroy. No other markings in book. Binding is fine. Some darkening marks on the spine. Author (1904-1964) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in New Orleans, he worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, mostly about the South, and was an associate editor at The New Yorker for more than 20 years. Seller Inventory # mon0000027642

Synopsis:

Hamilton Basso's The Light Infantry Ball is a novel of the years of crisis that led to the fall of the plantation South, and of the more personal crisis of a well-born, highly-placed family caught up not only in the tensions of the time but in complexities of their own identities and relations to each other.

The story centers around a young planter, John Bottomley, whose life takes him, after a college education in the North, from the remote isolation of his family's rice fields to the highest councils of government and then into uniform – a range and sweep that enable Basso to paint the broad, colorful panorama of a whole society.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Light Infantry Ball
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good