Title: Storm in the Valley
Author: Lee
Passarella
Genre: Historical
Civil War Fiction
Length: 134
pages
Release Date: February
25, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1508414209
SYNOPSIS: Townsend Philips, a.k.a. Monk Phillips, has soldiering
in his blood: his Uncle Lucas, who raised him, was a colonel in the
Mexican-American War, and Monk’s older brother John Tyler is a cadet at the
famed Virginia Military Institute. With his uncle’s blessing, in the summer of
1861 12-year-old Monk enlists as drummer boy with the 51st Virginia Volunteer
Regiment.
Throughout the war, the Phillips brothers despair of
ever seeing each other again. Then, in spring of 1864, the 51st faces the task
of driving superior Union forces out of the Shenandoah Valley.
On the eve of the Battle of New Market, Monk is
overjoyed to find himself unexpectedly reunited with John. But the
circumstances that join them are also unexpectedly perilous for both.
AUTHOR INFORMATION & LINKS
Passarella’s poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, Louisville Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Umbrella, Slant, Cortland Review, and many other periodicals and ezines. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared in several anthologies as well.
Swallowed up
in Victory, Passarella’s long narrative poem based on the American Civil War,
was published by White Mane Books in 2002. It has been praised by poet Andrew
Hudgins as a work that is “compelling and engrossing as a novel.” Passarella
has published two poetry collections: The Geometry of Loneliness (David Robert
Books, 2006) and Redemption (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His poetry chapbook
Sight-Reading Schumann was published by Pudding House Publications in 2007.
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