

Jordan County
Author: Shelby Foote
Narrator: Tom Parker
Unabridged: 20 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: Shelby Foote
Narrator: Tom Parker
Unabridged: 20 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Shelby Foote (1916-2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The Civil War: A Narrative.
While Shelby Foote is best known for his Civil War magnum opus in three volumes, his other works are also worth the reader's time and effort. This book follows in the tradition of his other fiction, basically excerpts from a fictional Mississippi county called Jordan. The book traces seven generatio......more
Shelby Foote's "Jordan County" is quite nice (upgraded on further consideration to four stars after initial three), though one could argue it's a novel in name only. More specifically, it's a novel stitched together with seven new short stories/novellas, tales set in progressively older time periods......more
This is weaker than his novels. In Jordan County we are given vignettes and glimpses of family stories about the people of Jordan County. The stories of some are but a few pages, the stories of others almost a novella. While Foote is great a creating characters so complete you can actually visualize......more