Jordan County, Shelby Foote
Jordan County, Shelby Foote
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Jordan County

Author: Shelby Foote

Narrator: Tom Parker

Unabridged: 20 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of diverse characters. With a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives, and sometimes warps them beyond repair, Foote gives us a work of fiction that is resolutely unique.

About Shelby Foote

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on August 09, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Tim on February 02, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Kate on December 11, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 06, 2013

Mr. Foote does not disappoint. The only thing that would make this better would be to hear it read aloud by Mr. Foote himself.......more