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02393aam a2200277 4500 001 F71673BE26C211EEB86906F531ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230720010041 020 $a 1797159488 020 $a 9781797159485 040 $d SILO 100 $a Burke, James Lee 245 $a Flags on the Bayou [8 CDs] / James Lee Burke. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a New York $b Simon & Schuster $c 2023. 300 $a 8 CDs (8 hrs 53 min) 520 $a In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. 520 $a When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observedand didas a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncles plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief. 520 $a James Lee Burke, whose evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all. 650 $a Fugitive slaves $x Fiction. 650 $a Confederate States of America; History $x Fiction. 650 $a Historical fiction. $x Fiction. 008 s2023 941 $a 1 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20230720014013.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F71673BE26C211EEB86906F531ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search