Dennard Dayle: How to Dodge a Cannonball, Kartoniert / Broschiert
How to Dodge a Cannonball
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- Verlag:
- Henry Holt & Company, 06/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250345653
- Umfang:
- 336 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 210 x 137 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 16.6.2026
- Hinweis
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A New York TimesEditor 's Choice PIck
How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not just for territory, but for the soul of America.
How to Dodge a Cannonball is funnier than the Civil War should ever be. It follows Anders, a teenage idealist who enlists and reenlists to shape the American Future-as soon as he figures out what that is, who it includes, and why everyone wants him to die for it. Escaping his violently insane mother is a bonus.
Anders finds honor as a proud Union flag twirler-until he's captured. Then he tries life as a diehard Confederate-until fate asks him to die hard for the Confederacy at Gettysburg. Barely alive, Anders limps into a Black Union regiment in a stolen uniform. While visibly white, he claims to be an octoroon, and they claim to believe him. Only then does his life get truly strange.
His new brothers are even stranger, including a science-fiction playwright, a Haitian double agent, and a former slave feuding with God. Despite his best efforts, Anders starts seeing the war through their eyes, sparking ill-timed questions about who gets to be American or exploit the theater of war. Dennard Dayle's satire spares no one as doomed charges, draft riots, gleeful arms dealers, and native suppression campaigns test everyone's definition of loyalty.
Uproariously funny and revelatory, How to Dodge a Cannonballasks if America is worth fighting for. And then answers loudly. Read it while it's still legal.