Word: kantor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...
LONG REMEMBER?MacKinlay Kantor ?Coward-McCann...
...made a speech there, Gettysburg remains a famed landmark in U. S. history. The story of that three-day battle between Lee's veterans and Meade's Army of the Potomac has been told many & many a time since 1863 without growing older in the telling. Author Kantor's version, an attempt to describe the battle as it might have appeared to a noncombatant native of the town, has almost the freshness of an eyewitness account...
...just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields and up to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill Bale forgot he was a pacifist. Though history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded. The three days' fateful thunders had been too much for his mistress's conscience and she was glad to expiate her sin by nursing her crippled husband. Bale took...
...Author Kantor's single -eyewitness method shows to best advantage in the earlier phases of the battle, when the action is comparatively simple and concentrated. Some of his vivid pictures of tired, dirty, wounded men, of galloping batteries and matter-of-fact sharpshooters are unforgettable. Later, when he has to describe a two-mile battle line through the eyes of one spectator, he falls back on impressionistic violence that results in confusion. By & large Long Remember is a brilliantly exciting piece of historical fiction, a book that many a reader will remember long...