BAND OF ANGELS • Robert Penn Warren • 1955 Vintage Book Club Edition • VERY GOOD

Description: Band of Angels, by Robert Penn Warren. Book Club Edition, 1955. Hardcover. New York: Random House. Fully Bound in Olive Boards with Black Lettering and Title Box on Spine; 8” - 9” tall; 314 Pages, Deckle-Edged. A tight, square book in Very Good condition, with minor rubbing to the head and tail, a clean, unmblemished interior, and crisp, unmarked pages. No book plates. Not an ex-library book. Comes in a Very Good Dust Jacket with minor rubbing to the head and tail and general shelf wear, otherwise excellent; now protected in a Mylar cover. Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast panorama of one of the most turbulent periods of American History as seen through the eyes of star-crossed young woman. Amantha soon finds herself in New Orleans, where she spends the war years with Hamish Bond, a slave trader. At war’s end, she marries Tobias Sears, a Union officer and Emersonian idealist. Despite sporadic periods of contentment, Amantha finds life with Tobias trying, and she is haunted still by her tangled past. “Oh, who am I?” she asks at the beginning of the novel. Only after many years, after achieving a hard-won wisdom and maturity, does she begin to understand that question. One of the great novels of the Civil War, written by the brilliant poet and author of All The King’s Men.

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