Encampment named as award finalist…twice

March 17, 2010

We are proud to announce that Encampment has been named as a finalist for two awards!

The first is the Montaigne Medal, for books that illuminate, progress, or redirect thought.  The second is the daVinci Eye, for excellence in book cover design.  The winners will be announced in late spring, and we are most definitely keeping our fingers crossed!

Both awards are part of the Eric Hoffer Awards, established “honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers.”

Congratulations to author Carl Eeman and designer Jeremey Bingham!

For more information about the Eric Hoffer Awards and Hoffer himself, please click here:  http://www.hofferaward.com/home.html

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The Critics Say…

"...a believable and fascinating tale with well-developed characters"

- New York Journal of Books


"a fascinating look at the waning lives of those who fought during the Civil War, and the progress of equality"

- Midwest Book Review

"In this beguiling, important novel, Carl Eeman reinvents a world of 1912-14 in which our tortured struggle with Civil War memory and race relations might have had different outcomes... Every serious student and reader of history has wondered “what if?” In Eeman’s haunting characters and dialogues, and in his textured storytelling, Americans can see the genuine tragedy in our story of Civil War remembrance."

— David W. Blight, Yale University, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Congratulations!