Kiss Me Good-Bye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War [Paperback]

Bonny Barry Sanders (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2007

The actual history of the 60th New York State Volunteer Regiment and accounts of its battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Lookout Mountain weave through the words of a soldier from Company A in this wartime love saga.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book provides an engaging dichotomic blend of the horrors of war and the passion of separated lovers. It is a delightful read for lovers of fiction and history alike. --Bradford A. Wineman, PhD, Department of Military History, US Army Command & General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS

This is Civil War history as you wish it were taught, authentic in its factual detail, but also riveting in its story of two lives it tears apart. Writing that rises to the level of poetry with striking images that resonate with their nineteenth-century setting. --Sharon Scholl, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Jacksonville University

Ms. Sanders captures the human dimension of the war. At times it seems that the protagonist, James McCormick, is a Forrest Gump of sorts befriending Walt Whitman, seeing President Lincoln, and being present at many of the major engagements of the war. --Philip Smith, Assistant Lecturer, History Department, Texas A&M University

About the Author

Bonny Barry Sanders is the author of a collection of poems, Touching Shadows, and of essays, book reviews, and poetry published in national literary journals and magazines. She won the Royal Palm Literary Award for poetry in 2005 from the Florida Writers Association. Ms. Sanders was raised and educated in Annapolis, MD. She received her bachelor s degree in history from Principia College, a master s degree in creative writing from Arizona State University, and a master of fine arts from Colorado State University. She has taught English composition, creative writing workshops, and western civilization at several universities. For over ten years she has been an editorial reader for Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature & Art. She is also the recipient of two three-week residencies awarded by the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Burd Street Press (March 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572493860
• ISBN-13: 978-1572493865
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,220,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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