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The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites audiobook

The Rebel Wife

By Taylor M. Polites
Read by Johanna Parker

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9.82 Hours • Unabridged
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In this dazzling debut, Taylor M. Polites crafts a Southern gothic novel that mines classic literary archetypes while shaping them in new ways. Set in Reconstruction-era Alabama, The Rebel Wife opens with Augusta Branson losing her husband to a terrible blood fever. Now she and her son must fend for themselves in a community being destroyed by violence. When the inheritance she expected suddenly disappears, Augusta starts hunting for answers, but she'll have to find them fast-before the deadly fever claims the life of everyone in town, including her son.

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Summary

In this dazzling debut, Taylor M. Polites crafts a Southern gothic novel that mines classic literary archetypes while shaping them in new ways. Set in Reconstruction-era Alabama, The Rebel Wife opens with Augusta Branson losing her husband to a terrible blood fever. Now she and her son must fend for themselves in a community being destroyed by violence. When the inheritance she expected suddenly disappears, Augusta starts hunting for answers, but she'll have to find them fast-before the deadly fever claims the life of everyone in town, including her son.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“This is a wonderful first novel—passionate and brave. It removes the skin of an era, and questions so many of the tropes that hover around nineteenth-century southern American literature. It was Faulkner who, in the twentieth century, talked about the voice of fiction being inexhaustible. Taylor Polites has extended our narrative reach into yet another time. A fascinating, genre-subverting historical novel.” —Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin
“This engrossing novel about a resilient heroine in the post–Civil War South has all the drama of the era and none of the clichés.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A richly detailed portrait of Reconstruction-era South Carolina…nimble, engrossing…builds to a vivid climax.” —Publishers Weekly
“Gothically atmospheric to the teeth, this ominous tale also smartly derives much of its tension from the sinister social and political realities of postwar Southern society. The suspense is exquisitely honed…wonderfully chilling.” —Booklist
“Borrowing elements from mystery and suspense novels we have all read, Polites builds steady tension throughout the entire story, as pieces of conspiracy fall into place, while others fall away…At times his prose is terse, almost Hemingway-esque, while at others, it is full of beautiful imagery and descriptions.” —Pank magazine

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Author Bio: Taylor M. Polites

Author Bio: Taylor M. Polites

Taylor M. Polites has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and BA in history and French from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2009, he was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship from Wilkes University. He has lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, New York City, St. Louis. and the Deep South and has covered arts and news for a variety of local newspapers and magazines, including the Cape Codder, InNewsWeekly, Bird’s Eye View (the in-flight magazine of CapeAir), artscope magazine, and Provincetown Arts magazine. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his small Chihuahua, Clovis.

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Available Formats : CD, MP3 CD
Runtime: 9.82
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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