Absolution -- Alice McDermott, Hardcover Computers - General Information Learn about General Winfield Scott's

Learn about General Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan to cut off the South from any outside support

slowing down

she remembers Walter Benjamin

she's done the unthinkable: betrayed her country

with national fanfare

Absolution -- Alice McDermott, Hardcover Computers - General Information Learn about General Winfield Scott'sAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award. American women American wives have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia