Arouse and Beware

by MacKinlay Kantor

Overview

MACKINLAY KANTORPulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville

A Novel of Escape During the Civil War

BASIS FOR THE FILMTHE MAN FROM DAKOTA

This is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners.

Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines on the Rapidan they are joined by a woman who is fleeing from Richmond. The hazards of their painful flight are tremendous as they travel by night on roads as ominous as the incredible future awaiting them.

Starvation and feasting, the swift beat of love, the primitive encounter, the hot cry of triumph-these elements are combined in this bold and valiant tale of sacrifice and high devotion.

Arouse and Beware, first published in 1936, was widely praised by the critics and became a best seller. Now with the success of MacKinlay Kantor's great novel, Andersonville, and the enormous interest in the Civil War period, it is being re-issued again to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628155914
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes, LLC
Publication date:	01/20/2017
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

MacKinlay Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and published his first book at twenty-three. Over the next half-century, he went on to produce more than forty works including novels, short story collections, novels in verse, novellas, histories and children's books. His best-selling historical novel, Andersonville, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. MacKinlay Kantor's other accomplishments included Hollywood screenwriting, patrolling the streets with the N.Y.P.D., and combat experience (RAF and USAF) in two wars, for which he was awarded the Medal of Freedom.