In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world. For redneck auctioneer Wade and his son Jim, pawnbroker Lucky, auction grip Lester, and Howard, a kid from Jackson Street, the haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably mark their understanding of race and responsibility in postwar America.
Laconic, nuanced, and stylish, master storyteller Jack Cady's depiction of the mid-century American South is fraught with racial tension, precise detail, and the delicate, figurative ghosts of the actions and inactions of the past.
From Jack Cady, award-winning author of The Hauntings of Hood Canal and Ghosts of Yesterday comes the astonishing final novel Rules of 48, a stirring semi-autobiographical examination of changing social conventions and the development of the American conscience in the aftermath of the greatest war in history.
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