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So all these thoughts of where i was going to publish, how i was going to publish, who was going to publish i just kind of suppressed all of that and committed to the work. Jun 04, 2007 peter charles melman s debut novel, landsman, is a boisterous, sometimes brutal, and fullhearted tale of a jewish hoodlum turned confederate soldier in the civil war elias abrams is the son of an indentured servant in new orleans who escapes a robbery gone awryand the wrath of his old underworld gang, the cypress stump boysby enlisting in the third louisiana regi. As fictional characters go, few embody such striking contradictions as cardsharp elias abrams. In the summer of 1853, in lafayette city, louisiana, elevenyearold elias. A novel apr 28, 2008 melman, peter charles by isbn.
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