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The Long Roll (Paperback)
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Description
A band of Civil War re-enactors is about to stage what one historian calls "the most vicious bout of sustained combat ever to take place on the continent." At night. In the rain. With overly enthusiastic special effects. And as the action threatens to get a little too authentic, they have a few personal problems to contend with as well--like unemployment, headstrong children, illusive dreams, and inescapable memories. History, historical pageantry, and history in the making entangle in this novel about a peaceful community that knows all too much about war.
About the Author
W. E. Burnette has been a soldier, an English teacher, and a marketing writer. This is his first novel.
Praise for The Long Roll…
This is a finely crafted, engaging, and moving novel. The story is centered around the reenactment of a Civil War battle, but you need not be a Civil War buff nor a re-enactor to fall under the spell of Burnette's story telling. With the reenactment as a backdrop, he deftly weaves together the lives of a handful of modern Americans, each waging his or her own private battle against entirely modern and all-too-familiar forces. You will learn plenty about the Civil War here, but you will learn more about the human heart in all its infinite capacity to love and to hate, to learn and to teach, to dread and to hope. At times somber, frequently stirring, occasionally funny, always captivating, Burnette's prose transports you to other times and places almost as if by magic. By the time you reach the extraordinary climax of the story you will be turning pages as fast as you can, and you will feel as if you are yourself on a battlefield. But stay tuned after the battle. The lyrical, haunting final chapter is itself worth far more than the price of admission. -Daniel James Brown, author of Under a Flaming Sky and The Indifferent Stars Above
