When Johnny Came Marching Home
Hefferman, William
Sold by James Lasseter, Jr, Brooksville, FL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by James Lasseter, Jr, Brooksville, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since October 19, 2006
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSigned and dated in the year of publication by the author, William Hefferman, on the half title page. 319 pages. Book is clean & binding is tight. No apparent underlining, no highlighting, no owner names, no bookplates, no folded or dogeared pages, not ex-libris, no remainder marks. A very nice, author signed, copy.
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In Heffernan’s best novel to date, a young, one-armed Civil War veteran investigates the death of a troubled fellow soldier in 1860s Vermont and Virginia.
“Heffernan swings his vivid tale back and forth between past and present, war and peace―a neat tour de force he pulls off with admirable assurance.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“A solid historical from Edgar-winning Heffernan.” ―Publishers Weekly
When Johnny Came Marching Home is a mystery, a love story, and William Heffernan’s best book to date. The novel tells the story of three boys who grow up in rural Vermont in a seemingly indestructible friendship, then see their lives ruined as they go off to fight in America’s “great and noble war.”
Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath―vividly presented with Heffernan’s meticulous historical research―the boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war’s end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath.
The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psychopath, and the offer of redemption for the wounded young man who must investigate the crime. When Johnny Came Marching Home is a story about war and how it affects the lives of all who become a part of it, both directly and peripherally. Although set during the Civil War, this book casts shadows of what we endure today and the horrors to which young soldiers are subjected.
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