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In Pickett's Charge, a century of Southern history unfolds as the last Confederate soldier sets out on a fantastical quest
Ain't Hell Meat Yet
by Emily Choate and Chapter16.org
January 30, 2014 Arts and Culture » Books
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Ain't Hell Meat Yet
by Emily Choate and Chapter16.org
January 30, 2014 Arts and Culture » Books
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- Pickett's Charge
By Charles McNair
Livingston Press, 331 pages, $18.95
Charles McNair will appear at Howlin' Books at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30.
Nearly everything about Charles McNair's novel Pickett's Charge is a bit of a stretch. For starters, Threadgill Pickett may be 114 years old, but his physical condition is sturdy enough. Threadgill believes he is the last surviving Confederate soldier. In the summer of 1964, he lies languishing in a rest home in Mobile, Ala., until a mysterious visitation by his long-dead twin brother Ben propels him toward a grand mission: Threadgill will travel to Bangor, Maine, and finish the war once and for all by killing the last Union soldier.