Fire in the water : a novel
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Author
Published
Indianapolis, Indiana : Blue River Press, [2015].
Status
Yuma Public Library - FICTION
FiC Thom, James Alexander
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FiC Thom, James Alexander
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Death and burial -- Fiction.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Funeral journey to Springfield -- Fiction.
Mississippi River -- Fiction.
Reporters and reporting -- Fiction.
Sultana (Steamboat) -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War,1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Fiction.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Funeral journey to Springfield -- Fiction.
Mississippi River -- Fiction.
Reporters and reporting -- Fiction.
Sultana (Steamboat) -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War,1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Fiction.
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Published
Indianapolis, Indiana : Blue River Press, [2015].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations ; 24 centimeters.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Illustrations by James Alexander Thom.
Description
For famous one-armed war correspondent Paddy Quinn, this is to be his final Civil War assignment: the funeral of the assassinated President Lincoln. Quinn and his new bride Felice are aboard the steamboat Sultana going up the spring-flooded Mississippi River toward Illinois to meet the Funeral Train, when their honeymoon vessel stops at Vicksburg and takes on a pathetic human cargo of 2,000 sick and ragged survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp, kept alive only by their desire to get home. Quinn's lot is now thrown in with some of the unluckiest veterans of that awful war. While he is interviewing them about life in the notorious prison, the Sultana, carrying five times its lawful number of passengers, explodes after midnight. Quinn is blown overboard with the emaciated veteran Robb Macombie, and in the worst night of his life proves himself a better man than he had ever imagined he could be. In this narrative of America's worst maritime disaster, the deepest undercurrent is the spirit of the martyred President, whom Quinn and Macombie have vowed to honor by attending his funeral even if it kills them.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Thom, J. A. (2015). Fire in the water: a novel . Blue River Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Thom, James Alexander. 2015. Fire in the Water: A Novel. Blue River Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Thom, James Alexander. Fire in the Water: A Novel Blue River Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Thom, James Alexander. Fire in the Water: A Novel Blue River Press, 2015.
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