Historical Fiction · DarkA Confederate colonel in a Southern town after Reconstruction
The Store
A decorated Confederate officer in the postwar South
The Store is set in Florence, an inland Southern town, in the mid-1880s after Reconstruction. It follows Colonel Miltiades Vaiden, a decorated Confederate officer and former overseer of the Crowninshield plantation, as he struggles to find his place under free labor conditions. It shows how planters, yeomen farmers and newly freed African Americans adapt to the postwar South.
More about this book
Who
Colonel Miltiades Vaiden, a decorated Confederate officer; the wealthy planters, yeomen farmers and freed African Americans around him.
World
Florence, an inland Southern town, in the mid-1880s.
What makes it different
It is the second book of the Vaiden trilogy, after The Forge. It was selected by the Literary Guild in 1932 and won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
Feel
Wry and unsparing.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The StoreWikipedia