Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

Nostalgia. /, a novel by Dennis McFarland, MP3 :

eng

not applicable

not applicable

fiction

Nostalgia. /

not applicable

848868741

a novel by Dennis McFarland

In the winter of 1864, young Summerfield Hayes enlists in the Union army, leaving his sister devastated and alone. The siblings, recently bereft of their parents, are unusually attached, and Summerfield fears his untoward feelings for his sister. This rich backstory is intercut with scenes of Hayes' soul-altering hours on the march, at the front--the slaughter of young men who, only days before, whooped it up with him in a regimental ball game; his temporary deafness and disorientation after a shell blast--and in the Washington military hospital where he eventually finds himself, mute and unable even to write his name. In this twilit realm, among the people he encounters--a compassionate drug-addicted amputee, the ward matron, the captain who believes Hayes is faking his illness--is a gray-bearded eccentric who visits the ward daily and becomes his strongest advocate: Walt Whitman. This timeless story reminds us how deep are the wounds of war, not all of which are visible

adult

not applicable

MP3 :