Devil's Dream

A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America's Civil War. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life; we see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement; we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina. As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life full of contradictions.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/16/2010
ISBN: 9780307279910
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.24w x 0.78d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/12/2010 pg. 28