Long Remember (Bantam Books #A1008) [Mass Market Paperback]

MacKinlay Kantor (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books; 1st Printing edition (1952)
• ASIN: B001RK8XTW
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,937,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best book to start with, October 24, 2000

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R. D. Jobe Jr. (kenova, wv USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long Remember (Paperback)

This book is the first fictional account of the Civil War that I read. I read it in college and it lead me to other authors such as Michael and Jeff Shaara, Allen Eckert, and James Alexander Thom. When you read this book, the resons why people believed the way they did back then make sense. The story is told very much in the way of a Tennyson poem, only less formal. It is a very gut wrenching story at times, and a tender one as well. Very few authors around today can even dream of coming close to Mr. Kantors work. Read this book and it will stay with you forever.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Repent, lovers of Cold Mountain!, August 22, 2000

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This review is from: Long Remember (Paperback)

This novel first published way back in 1937 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mackinlay Kantor should be a corrective to those who think the historical novel about the Civil War was born with and/or reached its apogee in Cold Mountain. While the early chapters of Long Remember seem to drag a bit, once Kantor gets the protagonist, Daniel Bale, back to his native Gettysburg, the novel takes off and exhibits many of the hallmarks of Kantor's most famous novel, Andersonville: Memorable and credible characters, arresting use of descriptive language, meticulous recreation of time and place. The incidents that Kantor uses to flesh out his tale of Gettysburg show a true craftsman at work. There is more of genuine pathos in scenes in which townspeoples' homes are turned into field hospitals than there is--for me at least--in many pages of that latter-day picaresque novel, Cold Mountain. And there is as much of the terror of war in Long Remember as in any novel written since.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This terrific book shouldn't be labeled a Civil War novel, December 24, 2001

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Richard E. Hourula (Berkeley, CA. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long Remember (Paperback)

This is so much more than a Civil War novel. Long Remember is the compelling story of a pacificst who returns home after a several years living in the West. Home happens to be Gettysburg Pennsylvania and the time is June 1863.

Happily, Long Remember takes it time before the armies clash. We get to know the main characters, particular our hero and the woman next door. The two fall in love. Their romance is complicated by the fact that she is married to a Union officer.

The battle of Gettysburg is retold in a unique way, its presentation here is much more meaningfull than the dry accounts of battle tactics readers usually have to endure.

I gave Long Remember four stars instead of five because I did not like the ending, However, I suspect most readers would not share my dissatisfaction.