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The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers

by Delia Falconer

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In 1876, Captain Frederick Benteen of Custer's 7th Cavalry survived Little Bighorn, but has never been forgiven by the public. Twenty years later, he receives a letter from an ambitious boy offering to "restore" his reputation.

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Georgia, 1898: On what may be the last day of his life, Captain Frederick Benteen — the man who, in the minds of many Americans, might have saved Custers Seventh Cavalry from death at Little Bighorn — receives a letter from an ambitious boy offering to “restore” his reputation. In the years since, Benteen has silently watched as the public canonized Custer for dying and cursed Benteen for surviving.

Now, at last, as he begins to put down some account of those two horrific days pinned down on a ridge in Montana, Benteen finds himself haunted by his lost companions: Star-Gazer, Handsome Jack, the gentle bugler De Rudio, and the Choir, a host of misfits who hover at the edges of the action. Benteen struggles to untangle his own story, his own worth, from the grand narrative of history and the “nine tenths nothing" that make up battle.

Funny, moving, rich in character and incident, this acclaimed novel avoids the bloody battle scenes and maudlin romance that characterize much fiction about the American-Indian wars in favor of an unsparing and poetic story that explores what it means to be a soldier — then and now.

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Robert Chancey, January 28, 2011 (view all comments by Robert Chancey)
A spare, breathtakingly beautiful novel that could be placed on the shelf beside Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or Michelle De Kretser's The Rose Grower. Falconer's language is precise, unflinching, compassionate and mesmerizing. She understands the complicated, radiant and pungent souls of men and women--and renders truths about our lives that are both tender and profound. It has taken an Australian women to write The Great American Novel.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781582435282

Author:

Falconer, Delia

Publisher:

Counterpoint LLC

Subject:

Historical

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Historical - General

Subject:

Little bighorn, battle of the, mont., 1876

Subject:

Benteen, Frederick William

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2009

Edition Description:

Trade Paper

Publication Date:

20091031

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

144

Dimensions:

7.5 x 5.5 in 4.8 oz

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Product details 144 pages Counterpoint LLC - 2011-10-19 English 9781582435282 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, In 1876, Captain Frederick Benteen of Custer's 7th Cavalry survived Little Bighorn, but has never been forgiven by the public. Twenty years later, he receives a letter from an ambitious boy offering to "restore" his reputation.

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

Georgia, 1898: On what may be the last day of his life, Captain Frederick Benteen — the man who, in the minds of many Americans, might have saved Custers Seventh Cavalry from death at Little Bighorn — receives a letter from an ambitious boy offering to “restore” his reputation. In the years since, Benteen has silently watched as the public canonized Custer for dying and cursed Benteen for surviving.

Now, at last, as he begins to put down some account of those two horrific days pinned down on a ridge in Montana, Benteen finds himself haunted by his lost companions: Star-Gazer, Handsome Jack, the gentle bugler De Rudio, and the Choir, a host of misfits who hover at the edges of the action. Benteen struggles to untangle his own story, his own worth, from the grand narrative of history and the “nine tenths nothing" that make up battle.

Funny, moving, rich in character and incident, this acclaimed novel avoids the bloody battle scenes and maudlin romance that characterize much fiction about the American-Indian wars in favor of an unsparing and poetic story that explores what it means to be a soldier — then and now.