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The most powerful exploration of racism you'll ever find in a modern novel, A Rumor of Appomattox delves into the tortured psyche of a committed klansman, exposing the emotional core and ideological framework of racism. This is a must-read novel for anyone committed to combating racism. Fortuna suggests that only by knowing racism and understanding racists can we ever hope to overcome the hatred at its center. He presents this novel, this relentlessly lyrical portrait of unrepentant bigot Fudd Markem, as an opportunity for readers to begin to understand racism as a first step to winning the fight against racial bigotry in America. Fudd Markem, for all his distorted values, is a compelling character whose struggle to adapt to a changed world illuminates with a pale and sickly light the hearts of white supremacists (and by extension bigots of all stripes) wherever they are found.
About the Author: James L. Fortuna, Jr., a seventy-two-year-old still fleet enough of foot to avoid becoming a passenger on "time's winged chariot" or a more than occasional landing pad for flies, retired recently from teaching English and Holocaust Studies at a community college filled with enough characters (himself included) to keep a satirist in business for at least ten more years. He has worked at various other jobs and has had various other experiences in various places over the course of a lifetime that incudes being thrown out of a pretty decent university's creative writing program, becoming homeless after a civil rights disagreement with an unnamed college in the Shallow (as opposed to the Deep) South, being hugged by Lyndon B. Johnson, becoming tangled in the Alabama state flag in Governor George Wallace's office, and trying to establish a homeless shelter on a not very welcoming New Age commune. He also plays at the five-string banjo and is living in nearly perfect peace with a wife who approaches sainthood by the simple fact of putting up with more nonsense than any human being should ever be subjected to. And he apparently is reckless enough to end a sentence now and then with a preposition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781517372859
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Confessions of a Georgia Klansman
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1517372852
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Weight: 281 gr

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