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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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F Rivers |
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Author:
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Rivers, Susan |
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Title:
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? To what extremes can war and violence push a woman who is left to fend for herself? Told through letters, court inquests, and journal entries, this saga, inspired by a true incident, unfolds with gripping intensity, conjuring the era with uncanny immediacy. Amid the desperation of wartime, Placidia sees the social order of her Southern homeland unravel. As she comes to understand how her own history is linked to one runaway slave, her perspective on race and family are upended. A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation--and the next--began to see their world anew"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781616205812 (hardcover) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us-sc |
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Classification number:
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PS3618.I859 |
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Item number:
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S43 2017 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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813/.6 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1954- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Susan Rivers. |
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Edition statement:
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First Edition. |
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Place of publication:
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Chapel Hill, NC |
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Name of publisher:
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
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Date of publication:
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2017 |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : |
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, |
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2017. |
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Extent:
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264 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Dimensions:
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22 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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General note:
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"A novel--Jacket cover. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Amazon 08/28/2017 |
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Purchase price:
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$ 25.95 |
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Subject:
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Adultery |
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Subject:
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Married women |
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Subject:
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Fugitive slaves |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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South Carolina |
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Geographic name:
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South Carolina |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Historical fiction. |
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Acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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CoCr |
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xn05 2017-02-28 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. |
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xk15 2016-04-11 (telework) to CIP |
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xk12 2017-03-21 c. 1 to CALM |
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CoCrCIP |
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2016-03-29 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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48815 |
F Rivers |
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