Binding: Paperback
Description: A cinematic Reconstruction - era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson's Fall a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great - grandparents we see America at its most fragile fraught and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston South Carolina Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace and spans the life of her tragic hero Frank Dawson as he attempts to navigate the country's new political social and moral landscape. Dawson a man of fierce opinions came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights rule of law and nonviolence unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn t control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship equality justice and slavery his newspaper rapidly lost readership and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor which threatened to stain his family's reputation. In the end Dawson a man in many ways representative of the country at this time was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.
Title: Dawson's Fall A Novel
Author(s): Robinson Roxana
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250619662
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/8/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction