Jordan County Audiobook Summary
Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle–“a landscape in narrative”–of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.
The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a Black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory ,only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War.
In prose of almost biblical gravity and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives, Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
Stories in this collection are: “Rain Down Home,” “Ride Out,” “A Marriage Portion,” “Child by Fever,” “The Freedom Kick,” “Pillar of Fire,” and “The Sacred Mound.”
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Jordan County Audiobook Narrator
Grover Gardner is the narrator of Jordan County audiobook that was written by Shelby Foote
Alexander Adams is an award-winning audiobook narrator. He is best known for his reading of the novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. He has also narrated numerous books by Jonathan Kellerman and John Grisham.
About the Author(s) of Jordan County
Shelby Foote is the author of Jordan County
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Jordan County Full Details
Narrator | Grover Gardner |
Length | 10 hours 5 minutes |
Author | Shelby Foote |
Category | |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Release date | April 19, 2024 |
ISBN | 9781481579483 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Jordan County is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Short Stories (single author)
Additional info
The publisher of the Jordan County is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781481579483.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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