This is New Hampshire native Mark Travis's first novel, but you may be familiar with his writing in local papers and as co-author of My Brave Boys. White Birch Books will host a reading with the author tomorrow, Tuesday, July 34, 2012 beginning at 7pm.
"Pliney Fiske is what filmmaker Ken Burns calls “a wonderful novel” that works at several levels. It is a page-turning mystery that pits an unlikely title character, a federal pension agent, against a celebrated group of battle-scarred Civil War veterans who are intent on preserving a wartime secret. It is a vivid evocation of daily life and concerns in, in 1867, two years after the war’s end, a place and a time at once distant and familiar. It is also, in the words of novelist Ernest Hebert, “an inquiry into the complexities of the American character,” exploring such issues as race, women’s rights, temperance, belonging, and forgiveness. ... Praise for Pliney Fiske has been generous. Hebert called it “a gripping historical novel.” Historian Dayton Duncan cited its “yeasty issues” and “vivid cast of memorable players.” Reviewer William Craig called it a “delightful debut novel” that “shows us a 150-year-old society divided, like our own, between various kinds of haves and have-nots, believers and sinners, patriots and scoundrels.” " --White Birch Books Concord ,New Hampshire
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