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    The Amalgamation Polka

    Written by Stephen Wright

    Narrated by Michael Emerson

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    About this audiobook

    Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood limned with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house, and the inevitable distress that befalls his mother whenever letters arrive from her parents. In hopes of reconciling the familial disunion, Liberty escapes--first into the cauldron of war and then into a bedlam more disturbing still. In a vibrant display of literary achievement, Stephen Wright brings us a Civil War novel unlike any other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateFeb 16, 2006
    ISBN9781449802868
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      Being a mock-picaresque narrative of the life of Liberty Fish, born just in time to make childlike observations on the race and slavery questions in the antebellum period and serve in the Union army during the Civil War. Liberty is rather fey and his parents, especially his mother, a transplanted southerner, especially so. This novel has some remarkably strong surrealistic passages, especially near the beginning of the book; as the story develops, it becomes considerably more conventional. The author has an unfortunate tendency to lead us down blind alleys; it begins with a marvellous, nearly-incomprehensible scene of magic realism which is, oddly, never returned to or explicated. Similarly, we are sent to Bleeding Kansas for some pages for no purpose that I can see. In other words, like almost all books today, it could have been shortened and better-edited. It is nonetheless memorable and informed by fine writing and thinking.