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Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men makes fortunes speculating on the war s consequences; a Virginia plantation, where the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer rides to his fate against Sitting Bull s warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud s banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn. McCaig s extensive research is revealed in the book s rich historical detail and revisionist perspective. Black life in Reconstruction-era Virginia is portrayed particularly well. Library Journal"

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Canaan
• Author: Donald McCaig
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780393330465
• ISBN: 039333046X
• ID: 04604537
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 142 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2008

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