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American Gold
Author: Ernest Seeman

American Gold is a re-creation of the history of a small Southern town-a weaving together of countless human lives and moments. — The author was born ninety-one years ago in Durham, NC, the fictional Warham of American Gold. To read this book is to experience an entire lifetime there form 1986, when the Civil War ends, until 1923 and the birth of... more » the "New South".

You will be present in the tiny cabin where General Johnston surrenders to General Sherman, and a treaty is signed in pokeberry juice, with a young artist from Harper's Monthly sketching the scene at his easel. You will be caught up in the raw energy and riotousness of the returning troops of both armies, and you will observe a young local farmer doing a land-office business hawking tobacco. You will feel another kind of energy at wok with the peddler's father, Jefferson Warham, proceeds to build a fortune on the basis of a barn full of tobacco, two blind mules and the unstinting labor of himself and his sons. And under your eyes Warham will begin to change from a sleepy one-street village to a town with factories and shops and a new brick church that Mr. Warham puts up so that his workers can get right with God.

There is Swelldoodle Hill with the mansions of the newly rich, nd Shit Creek where the lintheads and tobacco hands work. There is a print shop where young John Anders goes to work for his father, and where hobo printers drop by for a day or so of typesetting that will pay for their liquor and womanizing; the Warham Civic Opera House, built in 1898 ub the Italian manner, and the wonderful Pulaski livery sable where Anna, the girl John Anders loves, grows up-Anna, he unforgettable child who first arrives in Warham with a circus in 1867, goes up in a balloon, and becomes the first human being ever to have an aerial view of the country.

There are other extraordinary characters as well: Wah Sing, who opens a laundry in 1865, and who stirs the erotic fantasies of Mrs. Colonel Pescud of Swelldoodle Hill: Selena Warham, who, years after her rise to fortune, embarrasses her daughters by hunting for lost balls on country-club golf courses and telling her dinner guests exactly how one goes about milking a cow. Mrs. Eldridge Holt, whose magpie memory picks over fifty y4ears of small-town gossip and pettiness and remains fixated on the moments when, aged eighteen, she overheard Colonel Owsley complimenting her father upon her fine appearance.

All of this is rendered in a prose style of remarkable richness and poetic power that brings to mind writers like Twain and Faulkner. The pages are brimming with a wonderful lusty humor and with a pervasive tenderness-an intense passion for life and an unshakable belief in human possibilities.

ISBN-13: 9780803703490
ISBN-10: 080370349X
Pages: 283
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Publisher: Dial Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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