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Exalted Objects
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Expected 15 Sep 26296 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication September 15, 2026
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This novel, set pre- and post-Civil War, paints a complex portrait of a family coping with a changing world just outside of the violent conflict. With beautiful imagery and penetrating character analysis, the writing draws you in and holds you like any great page turner.
The novel is at its heart a story about two brothers and their complicated relationship. The author cleverly uses first person point of view for one and third person for the other. The diction and vocabulary of the first person brother, the sober and upstanding George, is so pitch perfect that I felt I knew him and could hear him talking in my head. The third person brother, William, a lawyer, poet, and libertine, is finely etched and so well depicted in his nonconformist nature as to seem a very modern figure.
When the author nonchalantly dropped Walt Whitman into the story, I had to cheer. And cheered again when Abe Lincoln appeared. And I kept on cheering at the abundance of poetic turns of phrase and clever insights.
Beautifully written and deeply researched, this is a great novel that deserves a wide reading.
I was privileged to be provided an advance reader copy of this novel.
The novel is at its heart a story about two brothers and their complicated relationship. The author cleverly uses first person point of view for one and third person for the other. The diction and vocabulary of the first person brother, the sober and upstanding George, is so pitch perfect that I felt I knew him and could hear him talking in my head. The third person brother, William, a lawyer, poet, and libertine, is finely etched and so well depicted in his nonconformist nature as to seem a very modern figure.
When the author nonchalantly dropped Walt Whitman into the story, I had to cheer. And cheered again when Abe Lincoln appeared. And I kept on cheering at the abundance of poetic turns of phrase and clever insights.
Beautifully written and deeply researched, this is a great novel that deserves a wide reading.
I was privileged to be provided an advance reader copy of this novel.
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