Peter Charles Melman's debut novel, Landsman, is a boisterous, sometimes brutal, and full-hearted tale of a Jewish hoodlum turned Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Elias Abrams is the son of an indentured servant in New Orleans who escapes a robbery gone awry--and the wrath of his old underworld gang, the Cypress Stump Boys--by enlisting in the Third Louisiana Regiment/5(34). Peter Melman has crafted a riveting tale of redemption and romance in the midst of this nation's most bloody and convulsive conflict. Landsman is transfixing and transporting, as well wrought as any classic work of historical www.doorway.rus: 1. Peter Charles Melman, Landsman. [Audiobook]Listen to the full version at – www.doorway.ru?lfrom=utm_sou.
Peter Charles Melman's debut novel, Landsman, is a boisterous, sometimes brutal, and full-hearted tale of a Jewish hoodlum turned Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Elias Abrams is the son of an indentured servant in New Orleans who escapes a robbery gone awry--and the wrath of his old underworld gang, the Cypress Stump Boys--by enlisting in. Peter Melman has crafted a riveting tale of redemption and romance in the midst of this nation's most bloody and convulsive conflict. Landsman is transfixing and transporting, as well wrought as any classic work of historical fiction. In the summer of , in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime, and in order to escape arrest, he enlists in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where three thousand other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy.
As fictional characters go, few embody such striking contradictions as cardsharp Elias Abrams: Jewish by birth, he joins the Confederate Army during the Civil War. out of 5 starsLandsmad is a fine romantic adventure of the Civil War seen through the eyes of a New Orleans Jew. Peter Charles Melman is a young author who has earned a Ph.d in Creative Writing. He has also earned this reviewer's respect for a well crafted, eloquently written,plot driven first novel. Melman, Peter Charles. “Landsman: A Novel”, Counterpoint Press, Expecting Justice Amos Lassen This is not a gay book. Every once in a while I read something that I feel like I have to talk about and Peter Melman’s “Landsman” is just such a book.
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