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Book Review of The Black Flower : A Novel of the Civil War

The Black Flower : A Novel of the Civil War
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Howard Bahr was born in Meridian, Mississippi. From 1982 to 1993 he was curator of Rowan Oak, the William Faulkner homestead and museum in Oxford, Mississippi. Since 1993 he has taught English at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

"I recommend it highly."--Shelby Foote, author of The Civil War Trilogy

"Writing with eloquence and humanity, Howard Bahr casts a tale of war as powerful as any you'll ever find."--Southern Lights

"I finished it in one long draught, thinking as I read of Crane, Hemingway, Mailer, and Faulkner . . . but realizing at the end that it was altogether original."--Ernest B. Furgurson, author of Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War