The Amalgamation Polka

Uncorrected Proof. Royal 8vo. Pp. [vi], 323, [1, blank]. Printed stiff wraps.

Wright's fourth novel. The son of fervent abolitionists and grandson of Carolina slaveholders, Liberty Fish escapes into the cauldron of war hoping to reconcile familial disunion. A Civil War novel by the author of Meditations in Green (1983), and Going Native (1994). "[A] dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy." –Thomas Pynchon