Band of Angels: By Robert Penn Warren. Random House HC 1955
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Band of Angels: By Robert Penn Warren. Random House HC 1955. Band of Angels By Robert Penn Warren. Random House 1955. HC 314 Pages. The book is in Good+ condition. 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. Band of Angels By Robert Penn Warren. Random House 1955. HC 314 Pages. The book is in Good+ condition. Please view the photo's for the best description. 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.
