{"product_id":"flags-on-the-bayou-library-binding","title":"Flags on the Bayou - Library Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Lee Burke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in\u003cbr\u003eCivil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of\u003cbr\u003echaracters - enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers - are caught in the maelstrom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the\u003cbr\u003eMississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is\u003cbr\u003eoccupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being\u003cbr\u003ereplaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved\u003cbr\u003emen and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the\u003cbr\u003eLufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence\u003cbr\u003eMilton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the\u003cbr\u003eslavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he\u003cbr\u003eobserved--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's\u003cbr\u003eplantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. \u003ci\u003eFlags on\u003cbr\u003ethe Bayou \u003c\/i\u003eis an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that\u003cbr\u003eends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated\u003cbr\u003eskirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged\u003cbr\u003ecolonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As\u003cbr\u003ethe story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp\u003cbr\u003erelief. James Lee Burke, whose \"evocative prose remains a thing of\u003cbr\u003ereliably fierce wonder\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), expertly renders the\u003cbr\u003erich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the\u003cbr\u003edingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the\u003cbr\u003ecottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eFlags\u003cbr\u003eon the Bayou \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, \u003cbr\u003eand love enduring through it all.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733093879871,"sku":"9798885789851","price":82.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bd4c431eb8c52594df1fd8c0b4c6dc3b.webp?v=1765134724","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/flags-on-the-bayou-library-binding","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}