{"product_id":"9780393347579","title":"Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, the John Eston Cook Award, and the Boyd Military Novel Award: “One of the best Civil War novels . . . McCaig’s prose is gorgeous . . . stunning.”—\u003cem\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to Gatewood Plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute—he will eventually fight for Robert E. Lee. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse—whose love for Maggie is unrequited—escapes to find her. Jesse finds his freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincoln’s army; in time he will confront his former masters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his award-winning novel of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America’s greatest war.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104474579184,"sku":"9780393347579","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393347579_p0.jpg?v=1769892298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393347579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}