High Hearts by Rita Mae Brown (1986)

High Hearts
by Rita Mae Brown
Publisher: Bantam Books
Copyright: 1986

Here, from the celebrated author of Rubyfruit Jungle, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, and Sudden Death, is a grand, sweeping novel that brings to scintillating life a wonderful story of true love and mistaken identity. Rich with all the color of history and characters that burst off the page and into our lives, High Hearts reveals one of our most outrageous and delightful storytellers weaving her most ambitious and entertaining novel yet.

On April 12, 1861, Geneva Chatfield marries Nash Hart in Albemarle County, Virginia. Five days later, Virginia secedes from the Union and Nash joins the hastily organized Confederate Army. Geneva is too tall to be pretty, but at eighteen she is attractive and bright as a cigar band. She is also the best rider since Light Horse Harry Lee and as headstrong as Andrew Jackson. So when Fort Sumter's guns fire the signal for every able-bodied Southern man to enlist, Geneva stares fate dead in the eye.

Geneva cuts her hair, dons a uniform, changes her name to Jimmy, then enlists in the Confederate cavalry to be with her beloved. This works out fine, until Nash, with his poet's sensitivities, recoils from the horrors of war, while Geneva is invigorated by the chase and the fight. If Nash isn't going to be a man, she'll show him how. But there are complications.

MAJOR "MARS" VICKERS is the quintessential soldier, happiest on the battlefield commanding his cavalry regiment and tending to his men. But his wife's icy rejection is destroying him, and, to his own amazement and shock, he is inexplicably drawn to the youngest soldier in the company, the one named Jimmy Chatfield.

DI-PEACHY is a slave, Geneva's personal property. She has grown up to be one of the most beautiful women in the South, a woman one man would kill for and another man would die for . . . a woman whose heritage is the Chatfield's best-kept secret.

LUTIE is Geneva's mother, part of the war on the home front. A lady of traditional Southern sensibilities, she discovers strength and purpose as she nurses the wounded in the never-ending war.

SIN-SIN and ERNIE JUNE are Lutie's servants who run the plantation. As they vie for power in the absence of men, they laugh and cry and ultimately see their way of life irrevocably drawing to a close.

Dramatic and delightful, High Hearts is Rita Mae Brown at her very best -- brimming with her sharp wit, penetrating insights, and deep love for the people and the ways, of the South.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Covers are rubbed and show a bit of wear. Dust covers shows shelf wear, light discoloration and a bit of edge wear. Pages are tanning from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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