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Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven-year-old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly, it all starts to unravel. A chance encounter with a group of Civil War reenactors sends him down a new, devastating path where the lines between fantasy and reality will blur, blanks will be replaced by bullets, and a bloody history will live again. An extraordinary story about the fate of men and women no longer in step with the rhythms of the modern world, as they march back into Southern history to make things right, Last of the Dixie Heroes is an unforgettable novel of suspense.
- Sales Rank: #4166173 in Books
- Published on: 2002-05
- Released on: 2002-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.86" h x .95" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
From Publishers Weekly
With his diverse settings, quirky characters and intriguing story lines, Abrahams (Crying Wolf; A Perfect Crime; etc.) has set himself up as a master of engrossing, off-the-beaten-track suspense yarns. However, although his latest effort starts out promisingly, it runs out of steam just when it should be revving up to a climax. Though he doesn't realize it at first, Roy Hill's life in Atlanta is coming apart at the seams. His company has been taken over by a megacorporation (resulting in Roy's losing out on a promised promotion), he's divorced (with an 11-year-old son) and his ex-wife's new squeeze "doesn't even bother to get dressed in the morning" (he's a lumpy online trader). But when Roy becomes intrigued by the off-hours activities of one of his business colleagues a Civil War reenactor our hero seems to have found a comfortable niche. At first, Roy finds Gordo's hobby amusing ("harmless fun in funny clothes"), but the peace of 1863 life begins to look better and better and the boundaries between contemporary reality and historical playacting begin to blur with increasingly disturbing repercussions. It's clear from the outset that the Abrahams style is still in high gear the deadpan humor, often expressed as wry one-liners; the trenchant observations on motivation and behavior. But the author gets bogged down in historical details and a myriad of vaguely developed characters, and readers may find that Roy's confusion becomes their own. This is a case where the journey (read: Roy's gradual dissolution) proves more enticing than the ultimate destination. (June)Forecast: This won't be Abrahams's Appomattox, but it sure won't be his greatest triumph, either.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Abrahams's tale is faintly reminiscent of Julio Cortazar's Blow Up in that it revolves around a perceived reality. In Last of the Dixie Heroes, protagonist Roy Hill (namesake of a Civil War hero) experiences a depressing personal cycle when he loses his wife and his job. His salvation seems to be in reliving the Civil War with a local reenactment group, but eventually the reenactments turn real, and Roy's personality becomes confused with his famous ancestor's. Massive amounts of whiskey, self-pity, and Yankee-hating only make Roy's situation worse. Eventually, a union reenactment group kidnaps his son, and war is officially declared. While undoubtedly a creative undertaking, this story struggles to convince the listener that Roy and his unit are anything but a bunch of drunken good ol' boys still fighting the war. Buck Schirner's narration unfortunately only reinforces this perception. People who participate in war reenactments are likely to be insulted by this work. Not recommended. Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The 1998 publication of Tony Horwitz's nonfiction account of Civil War reenactors, Confederates in the Attic, seems to have fired the imagination of fiction writers. Jane Hamilton's latest novel, Disobedience, dealt with the strangely compelling world of reenactment, and now this studied effort to time-travel forms the spine of a suspense tale. Roy Hill is a Kafkaesque business operative, performing nebulous work in a series of cubicles for an Atlanta multinational company. His home life is ambiguous; his wife leaves, then returns, but her loutish boyfriend threatens both Roy and his son. His work is rewarded with a promotion that leaves other cubicle workers envious. When a coworker invites Roy to a Confederate reenactment, Roy becomes drawn to that world, which somehow seems more real than his own life. The problem, however, is that it keeps getting more and more real, with real bullets replacing blanks, and new battles raging under cover of the old. A well-crafted and compelling thriller. Connie Fletcher
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
"The Fan" meets the Civil War Re-enactment Scene
By Brian English
However, LAST OF THE DIXIE HEROES is subtitled "A Novel of Suspense," but it's hard to figure out why. There really isn't much in the way of suspense in this book.
Regardless of this, Abrahams had me there for a while. For two thirds of LAST OF THE DIXIE HEROES, Abrahams weaves an interesting tale of a guy stuck in a dead-end white collar job. Roy Singleton Hill is buffetted by the forces of corporate mergers, cuckolded by his floozy of a wife, and desperately trying to salvage his relationship with his son. Abrahams is at his best as he paints this uncomfortably realistic portrait of a man's world falling apart.
As Hill begins to get involved in reenacting the Civil War, we see him gradually move away from his grim present and live increasingly in his rose-colored view of the past of his great-great-grandfather and namesake, a Confederate hero who rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest. In spite of Abrahams' acknowledgement that he consulted men from the 22nd Massachusetts reenactment group in his research, he gets the reenactment scene a little wrong. But these are forgiveable errors, which can be put down to poetic license.
Less forgiveable is how the story implodes in the last seventy or so pages. Hill's relationship with Lee, a fellow reenactor who is not what he seems develops and peters out meaninglessly. Hill runs into what could be a long-lost relative, but this fascinating storyline is left undeveloped and without a real payoff. An incredible encounter with his one-time boss at an amazing point of the story come totally out of nowhere, and passes by without incident. But the worst part is where, for some strange reason, a group of rival reenactors escalate to a scale of real-life violence for no apparent reason. The climax of the book is so silly as to completely strain the credulity of even the most forgiving reader.
And in spite of all the momentus and over-the-top events that happen in the last two chapters, there is an incredibly brief two-page wrap up of all the plot lines that wraps up everything up in a way that is not only too convenient, but too implausible.
As I say, Abrahams had me there, and had orchestrated a nice set-up. But then he just tossed it all away by turning the whole thing into a silly action movie. Which kind of reminded me of "The Fan," a movie based on an earlier Abrahams book of the same title. Actually, THE FAN and LAST OF THE DIXIE HEROES both feature fathers who have been separated from their sons by divorce. This doesn't come across as a theme in Abrahams' work; it's more like he took his manuscript for THE FAN and tweaked the setting from baseball to Civil War re-enactment. Unfortunately, the changes didn't improve the absurdity of the story.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Is There An Editor In The House?
By David K. Taggart
This is a neat premise -- disaffected urban male retreats to 1863 to live. And Abrahams is a very good writer -- keen observations, sustained narrative drive, a dead-on sense of place (the Atlanta-area setting and details are at least as good here as Tom Wolfe's A MAN IN FULL; the biggest shock in the book was finding out that Abrahams lives on Cape Cod).
But LAST OF THE DIXIE HEROES just falls apart like a house of cards in a slight breeze. Did an editor do anything with it at all, other than spellcheck? Are there any editors anymore? Or is Abrahams too valuable a writer to risk offending by editing his work?
The protagonist, Roy Hill, is fully-drawn, and his motivations are real. But none of the other characters breath at all. His wife arbitrarily becomes [promiscuous] after 10 years of marraige. His boss is "sharp-dressed, well-spoken Black man" from Central Casting, and there's no reason to see why he would take any interest in Roy's career. There's no reason why his best friend from work should even be his friend. The character Lee has a secret which surprised me -- because normally you watch reruns of THE A-TEAM to find plot points this silly.
This doesn't even mention the "damnyankee" bad guys who show up two-third of the way through the book, a climax that is obviously tacked on to fit, and an on again/off again racial angle that twists and turns into nothing.
This said, LAST OF THE DIXIE HEROES is a compulsive page-turner. Peter Abrahams, and his readers, have been let down by the editing, or lack there-of. This one needed work done on it.
NOTE: My copy was the poorest printing of a mass-market paperback I've ever seen -- four pages totally darkened out, and another eight with very light printing. Of course, if you're not going to spend the $ to edit a book, I guess you're going to be reluctant to remainder damaged copies of the print run as well.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Brainless
By A Customer
This book had a catchy title and I picked it up. It was a great read from the start but was so twisted near the end.
The main character Roy seemed so clueless. The author's constant uses of "What?", "I don't know what you mean", and Roy's constant state of bewilderment was almost laughable. He had no clue of what people were saying around him. In fact, a whole page is dedicated to someone trying to clue him in. For example when Roy was told his whole department was let go he didn't get it. Even though all of the furniture, computers, and cubes were gone Roy was still wondering when he was going to start his new job as the boss of a department that was missing. The conference call with NY was classic, Roy ripping his shirt off because he couldn't breathe... correction Curtis's shirt, because Roy forgot he was wearing a UGA Football T-Shirt. The ending made no sense. I should write a book if they publish this junk.
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