03127cam a2200457 i 4500 1165033510 TxAuBib 20240305120000.0 230228s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780802161697 0802161693 TxAuBib rda Burke, James Lee, 1936-, author Flags on the bayou. Flags on the bayou / by James Lee Burke. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. ©2023. 310 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose "evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder" (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all" -- Jacket. 20240305. 1861-1865. fast Fugitive slaves Fiction. Surgeons Fiction. Soldiers Fiction. Fugitive slaves. fast United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Louisiana History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Confederate States of America History Fiction. Southern States. fast Fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast History. fast Novels. fast Suspense fiction. gsafd Historical fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Romance fiction. fast