false <![CDATA[Rebel Yell: A Novel]]> 6611075 1 Abel Jones Jr., a civil rights lawyer’s son turned black Washington neo-con, has met an unlikely end: collapsing at the Rebel Yell dinner theater, surrounded by actors in Confederate regalia, with his white second wife at his side. Hope Jones Blackshear, Abel’s first wife and mother of his only son, is left confounded by the turn his life took in his later years. Sharing a drink after the funeral with Abel’s old friend Nicholas Gordon, Hope lets herself reminisce about first meeting Abel at Harvard, and their early married days as a foreign service couple in Manila and Martinique. But her own version of history is altered by that of Nicholas, a dandified Brit who seems to know more than he lets on. To fully understand the story of Abel Jones, for her own sake and that of their teenage son, Hope journeys from Nashville to Rome, seeking the connection between the Abel she loved, a child of Southern terror in the sixties, and the Abel who became a White House watchdog of global terror, driven to measures Hope could never have imagined.The work of one of our gutsiest writers, <I>Rebel Yell </I>is a novel of resilient love, political intrigue, and family secrets, steeped in our country’s racial history and framing our unique political moment. 6805060 book 29 9 2009 Rebel Yell: A Novel total:14|5:0|4:2|3:7|2:3|1:2| 14 37 64 10 2 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 15:09:55 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 16:15:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 03:57:09 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 21:51:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 12:03:19 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 16:44:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 10:29:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:45:54 -0700 2009 1 Strengths:
1. The flashback portions when Abel was a child were interesting and telling about the man he was to become.
2. The country music loving, hard drinking, biracial protagonist was an interesting viewpoint.
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