Gob's Grief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375726248)

In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave his brother behind. Tomo falls in as a bugler with the Ninth Ohio Volunteers and briefly revels in camp life; but when he is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is left to endure the guilt and grief that will later come to fuel his obsession with building a vast machine that will bring Tomo-indeed, all the Civil War dead-back to life.
Epic in scope yet emotionally intimate, Gob's Grief creates a world both fantastic and familiar and populates it with characters who breath on the page, capturing the spirit of a fevered nation populated with lost brothers and lost souls.

Author: Chris Adrian
ISBN-10: 0375726241
ISBN-13: 9780375726248
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2002
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.19w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2002 03/01/2002 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 03/22/2002 pg. 102