The Rebel Wife Blog Tour: Blog Tour Schedule

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Blog Tour Schedule

February 2012 - Confirmed Dates

February 1
...the bookworm...
click link to read the posted guest post

February 2
Let Them Read Books
click link to read the posted review

February 3
Colorimetry
click link to read the posted review and interview

February 6
Five Alarm Book Reviews
click link to read the posted review and guest post

February 7
Historical Boys
click link to read the posted guest post

February 8
Ladybug Storytime
click link to read the posted guest post

February 10
The Maiden's Court
click link to read the posted interview

February 14
Reading the Past
click link to read the posted review and interview

February 16
Ex Libris
click link to read the posted interview

February 17
The True Book Addict
click link to read the posted review

February 20
The Elliott Review
click link to read the posted guest post

February 21
Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer
click link to read the posted guest post

February 24
A Bookish Libraria
click link to read the posted review and interview

February 29
Reading for Sanity
click link to read the posted review

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Taylor M. Polites

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Bio:
Taylor M. Polites is a novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island with his small Chihuahua, Clovis. Polites’ first novel, The Rebel Wife, is due out in February 2012 from Simon & Schuster. He graduated in June 2010 with his MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. He has lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, New York City, St. Louis and the Deep South. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in History and French and spent a year studying in Caen, France. He has covered arts and news for a variety of local newspapers and magazines, including the Cape Codder, InNewsWeekly, Bird’s Eye View (the in-flight magazine of CapeAir), artscope Magazine and Provincetown Arts Magazine.

Polites is an extraordinary new talent in Southern fiction, and both the book and author are being embraced by the biggest names in Southern literature. Early readers of The Rebel Wife have been delighted by the echoes of Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, and Cormac McCarthy in this genre-subverting southern gothic novel with a more contemporary understanding of the stereotypes that were prevalent in Margaret Mitchell’s day. As you read The Rebel Wife, you'll find tattered fragments of Gone with the Wind and meet completely subverted versions of the white Southern Gentleman, the good Mammy, the conniving Scalawag, and the defenseless Southern Belle.

Polites was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the basis for the town of Albion in this book, and has been researching this novel since he was 15 years old, when he volunteered to work at a historic home there. He became obsessed with the Southern experience during the Civil War; read diaries, memoirs, and letters from that time; and ultimately imagined and mapped out the town of Albion, much like William Faulkner created his Yoknapatawpha County. He is deeply knowledgeable about the time and place he writes about and its literature, giving this book impeccable authenticity and authority.

To Purchase Book

The Rebel Wife
can be purchased at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Powells

Publisher:
Simon & Schuster

Hardcover
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9781451629514
Pages: 304
Release: February 7, 2012

eBook
Kindle - $11.99
Nook - $11.99
iBookstore - $11.99

Publishers Weekly Review:
"A richly detailed portrait of Reconstruction-era South Carolina."

Summary:
Set in Reconstruction Alabama, Augusta “Gus” Branson's is a young widow whose quest for freedom turns into a race for her life when her husband Eli dies of a swift and horrifying fever and a large package of money – her only inheritance and means of survival – goes missing. Gus begins to wake to the realities that surround her: the social stigma her marriage has stained her with, what her husband did to earn his fortune, the shifting and very dangerous political and social landscape that is being destroyed by violence between the Klan and the Freeman's Bureau, and the deadly fever that is spreading like wildfire. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she trusts is hiding something from her.

Plot:
Brimming with atmosphere and edgy suspense, The Rebel Wife presents a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama, where the old gentility masks a continuing war fueled by hatred, treachery, and still-powerful secrets.

Augusta Branson was born into antebellum Southern nobility during a time of wealth and prosperity, but now all that is gone, and she is left standing in the ashes of a broken civilization. When her scalawag husband dies suddenly of a mysterious blood plague, she must fend for herself and her young son. Slowly she begins to wake to the reality of her new life: her social standing is stained by her marriage; she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence; the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exist; and the deadly blood fever is spreading fast. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she knows is hiding something, and Augusta needs someone to trust. Somehow she must find the truth amid her own illusions about the past and the courage to cross the boundaries of hate, so strong, dangerous, and very close to home. Using the Southern Gothic tradition to explode literary archetypes like the chivalrous Southern gentleman, the good mammy, and the defenseless Southern belle, The Rebel Wife shatters the myths that still cling to the antebellum South and creates an unforgettable heroine for our time.