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LOST
KINGDOMS
A Novel
Philip H. McMath
With the
appearance of his latest novel, Lost Kingdoms, Phillip
H. McMath has completed his fictional trilogy beginning with
Native Ground (1984), then Arrival Point
(1991). Now in Lost Kingdoms, the fictional Elizabeth
Shaw flashes back via grief and remembrance on the death of
her son, Christopher, the Marine hero of Native Ground
killed in Vietnam. Through this medium of memory and loss
is woven in the lives of several families (White, Black, and
Red) the tragic story of Arkansas, the South, Southwest, and
Mexico, which slowly emerges as a philosophical-historical
tapestry not only as a tale uniquely its own but a comment
on the meaning of history itself.
Phillip
H. McMath, writer, trial lawyer, and Vietnam veteran,
has combined an interest in history, his native South, and
war to create a unique body of work in fiction, drama, and
journalism. One critic said of his second novel, Arrival
Point, that “Phillip McMath
knows and evokes the diverse worlds of Vietnam, China, Russia,
and Arkansas, and uses them adroitly as settings for a tale
of intrigue, revenge, love, and human values.”
January
2007
$19.95
6 x 9; paper, 576 pages
978-09768007-3-6
Distributed for
Phoenix International.
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