Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his lifefrom the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River,… (more)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press (September 01, 2007)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 1,088 pages
File size: 3.7 MB
Protection: DRM
Language: English