Confederates (novel)

Confederates
First edition cover
Author(s)	Thomas Keneally
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Collins, England and Australia
Publication date	1979
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	427 pp
ISBN	0002221411
OCLC Number	6090459
Dewey Decimal	823
LC Classification	PZ4.K336 Co 1979 PR9619.3.K46
Preceded by	Passenger
Followed by	The Cut-Rate Kingdom

Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.

Confederates "uses the United States Civil War as a setting for a more personal conflict between neighbors. In the midst of the war's climactic battle -- Antietam -- another conflict is underway. Ephie Bumpass' husband Usaph and Ephie's lover Decatur Cate are thrown together to fight in the Shenandoah Volunteers. Cate's emasculating injury in the battle is a symbolic punishment for his sin.^[1]

Awards and nominations

• Man Booker Prize: shortlisted 1979

External links

• "The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally" by Peter Pierce, Australian Literary Studies vol.12 no.4 October 1986 (pp.442-452)

References

1. ^ Thomas Keneally