For the Love of Robert E. Lee

by M.A. Harper

Book Overview

In love with the long-dead Robert E. Lee, the man who tended to her great-grandmother's burned bottom during the Charleston conflagration, Garnet Laney recalls her obsession's life and family in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093914963X
• ISBN13: 9780939149636
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

thoughtful page turner, black humor

I had heard about this book from somebody who had similary enjoyed the same speculative (not quite sci-fi) novels I like, and was sort of blown away by its oddity and fresh voice. Reality merges with time travel. Or is it all in the mind? What I like is the confusion of past and present, Civil War era with the 1960's. The author questions the nature of time itself, but isn't afraid to write paragraghs almost incongruously funny, especially when viewed against serious and rather tragic historical material. A strange and entertaining read.

Not a romance novel

I postponed reading it because it did not seem like something male readers would like, even though Civil War historians have praised it. But I received it as a gift and was pleasantly surprised, even intrigued. Robert E. Lee becomes a real person in these pages, with insight that I have never seen anywhere else. Readers who regard this book as a classic are correct.

Re: Not a romance novel (review already posted 11/18/00)

I think I need to retract the (very favorable) review I just wrote about this book yesterday. The author is a very close personal friend, and believes it unethical for me to submit it. Maybe she's right, because I am partial to her in many things, although my stated opinion of the work is true. In any case, she doesn't want to see her credibility questioned in any way, so please squelch my review, since she's pretty worried about this. Thank you.