The Wave

Evelyn Scott

first published 1983 Ams Pr Inc, 1983 hardcover

Voices of the South

When published in 1929, Evelyn Scott's The Wave was lauded as "magnificent," "monumental," and "masterly" in its experimental, almost cinematic, narrative technique and its modernist view of war and history. For those same reasons, less visionary reviewers labeled it "a failure.". Without sentimentality, nostalgia, or a hint of southern apology, Scott takes as her subject the Civil War and shapes it into a kaleidosc...

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The Wave paperback · 2004 · Kessinger Publishing · 636 pages · 9781417926367
The wave edition · 1996 · Louisiana State University Press · 624 pages
The Wave paperback · 1986 · Carroll & Graf Pub · 9780881842098
Wave hardcover · 1983 · Ams Pr Inc · 9780404202309

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