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^ Read # The Black Flower by Howard Bahr ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Black Flower K. Sterling said Better than "Cold Mountain". I don't know how this one slipped through the cracks. I am a student of the War and fairly widely read, yet I have never encountered a work of Civil War fiction that moved me the way "The Black Flower" has. Truly a masterpiece. The language is exquisite, the characters well drawn and believable. Unlike in "Cold Mountain," I have been unable to find any historical inaccuracies. Bushrod, Jack, Virgil C., and Anna became as real to me as my best friend.
| Title | : | The Black Flower |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.24 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1877853747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 267 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Civil War buffs will rejoice in Bahr's vivid retelling of the November 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. --Eugenia Trinkle. Howard Bahr compresses this moving Civil War novel into 48 hours--two short days filled with grim deaths and the prelude, at least, to a love story. First issued by a small Baltimore press in 1997,The Black Flower was nominated for four major awards, including one from the Academy of Arts and Letters, but failed to garner the attention paid to Cold Mountain. Confederate rifleman Bushrod Carter, the novel's protagonist, is wounded during the battle and taken to a nearby house. More to the point, The Black Flower transcends its historical fiction niche and deserves a wider audience. In this makeshift hospital, he and two chil
K. Sterling said Better than "Cold Mountain". I don't know how this one slipped through the cracks. I am a student of the War and fairly widely read, yet I have never encountered a work of Civil War fiction that moved me the way "The Black Flower" has. Truly a masterpiece. The language is exquisite, the characters well drawn and believable. Unlike in "Cold Mountain," I have been unable to find any historical inaccuracies. Bushrod, Jack, Virgil C., and Anna became as real to me as my best friend. They made me laugh, cry, and love them all, and I was immensely sorry when this well-crafted book ended. Surely someone should turn this story into a feature film. Aft. "Disturbing" according to avid reader. I bought this novel after reading "Cold Mountain" and seeing Amazon.com recommendations for "The Black Flower." I therefore went into "The Black Flower" predisposed to liking it, which I certainly did at first. The introduction of the characters as they prepare for the Battle of Franklin is masterful and suspenseful. Bushrod and his two buddies from Mississipi are likeable characters, and the reader feels for them as they psyche themselves for battle. There is a little bit of wandering narrative, but the anticipation of the fighting keeps the reader attentive. Then comes a black hole where the battle took place and. "Stunning" according to Thelma C. Johnson. First I read COLD MOUNTAIN, and thought it was interesting, but passionless. When I finished it, I had endless images of walking through wet leaves. Then I read THE BLACK FLOWER and it is wonderful. Bahr is a master of his craft--he knows how to handle flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and lyricism on a level with Faulkner and Welty. The images are haunting, and perhaps the theme is the loss and waste of war, not only for the young lives lost but for the women who were forever cheated of youth and love and family, who became old women walking among the graves on Sunday afternoons. This is not about glory but dea
The Black Flower A Novel of the Civil War By Howard Bahr Fourth Printing This powerful story of a young rifleman's agony during the Battle of FRanklin in 1864 ranks with the foremost novels of the Civil War. Bushrod Carter's senses record the Confederate charge and it's deadly consequences with the clarity of Michael Shaara's Killer Angels and the poetry of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic "John Brown's Body". It has already won praise for it's originality and power in the New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Southern Living and many other journals. That army literally dissappears in a hail of rifle and cannon fire from the Union entrenchments. The black flower symbolizes the rifleman's sense of doom in the misdst of Union cannons firing upon John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee
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