ASIN: B008L5PINA
Publisher: Lake Lore Press
Pages: 652
From the Civil War to the Culture Wars, THE WAR LESS CIVIL, a 2011 Finalist in the prestigious Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Competition, is a panoramic American saga that begins in the fall of 1864 when Henry Rosenberg joins the Union Army despite the powerful objections of his pacifist wife, Augusta. The novel ends in 1991 after the conclusion of the first Iraq War. Intervening decades reveal the attitudes of Henry and Augusta's descendants towards war and peace, love and marriage, success and failure, all of which dramatically define their lives and family relationships. The first two chapters focus on Augusta's life on the home front, suffering the physical and emotional hardships of living without the husband who, she fears, will, at war’s end, forsake her and their two small sons. Can she overcome her angry rejection of him? Augusta wages an intense spiritual battle to endure as a ...
