Confederates (novel)

Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.

Confederates
First edition cover
AuthorThomas Keneally
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCollins, England and Australia
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
1979
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages427 pp
ISBN0-00-222141-1
OCLC6090459
823
LC ClassPZ4.K336 Co 1979 PR9619.3.K46
Preceded byPassenger 
Followed byThe Cut-Rate Kingdom 

Confederates uses the United States Civil War as a setting for a more personal conflict between neighbors. In the midst of the war's climactic battle—Antietam—another conflict is underway. Ephie Bumpass' husband Usaph and Ephie's lover Decatur Cate are thrown together to fight in the Shenandoah Volunteers. Cate's emasculating injury in the battle is a symbolic punishment for his sin.[1]

Awards and nominations

  • Man Booker Prize: shortlisted 1979
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  • "The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally" by Peter Pierce, Australian Literary Studies vol.12 no.4 October 1986 (pp. 442–452)

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