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Cargando... No Certain Rest: A Novel (edición 2003)por Jim Lehrer
Información de la obraNo Certain Rest por Jim Lehrer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very good story of murder at the Battle of Antietam that leads to unintended consequences of revealing the truth about a how a war hero died. This was a selection of a book discussion group I belong to, and from its reviews and ratings, I didn't think I would like it. But I actually enjoyed the read. True, Lehrer isn't a very good novelist, if this is a typical novel of his, but I enjoyed the history, the mystery, the CSI parts, and that it was about both the Civil War and how history resonates down the decades and centuries. The others in our book group liked it less than I did, and they liked neither the protagonist, National Park Service archeologist Don Spaniel, nor the ending. But I found the account of the work of government historians and archeologists very interesting. I was finally curious to read one of his novels after watching The NewsHour for many years. I think this was a good place for me to start---he DOES have quite an imagination but he puts it in a context that he can thoroughly research. It was a good "story"---quite readable and with a good mystery quality. I need to try some more Jim Lehrer novels. I liked this. It was short and could have been more fleshed out but interesting none the less. This was the first of Lehrer's I've read and I did enjoy it. It begins with the find of a Civil war grave complete with a full , unusual in itself. The author takes you through the process of finding out why and how this particular officer ending up buried there. It's also a journey by one particular Park Service archeologist who becomes almost obsessed in finding out all the why's and wherefores and whether the truth he finds be released or hidden again. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
On a ridge overlooking Burnside Bridge - the focus of the Battle of Antietam - souvenir hunters find the unmarked grave of an unknown Union Officer. Don Spaniel, an archeologist in the National Park Service, is called in to examine the remains. He soon discovers that the officer was murdered and that his identification disk could not possibly belong to him, since its rightful owner is buried elsewhere. Spaniel's obsessive investigation leads not only to his reliving the horrible carnage that occurred at Burnside Bridge over a century before, but to the true identity of the Union officer and the reason why another body resides in his grave in a small New England town. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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