Follow Me Down: A Novel

Shelby Foote

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 25, 2011 - Fiction - 288 pages

A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original.

Contents

• Circuit Clerk: 3
• Reporter 22 40: 22
• Dummy: 58
• Eustis 77 95 115: 77
• Beulah: 125
• Eustis 146 156 175: 146
• Wife: 197
• Lawyer 217 236: 217
• Turnkey: 255

About the author

Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Follow Me Down: A Novel
• Author: Shelby Foote
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307779289, 9780307779281
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General