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Sand Mansions
A Novel
Norman Gilliland

"Gilliland presents a panorama of fascinating true-life characters who inhabited North Central Florida. . . . It is a great read."
—Michael Gannon, author of Secret Missions

In 1876, a close presidential contest was tilted by means of a few stuffed ballot boxes, one of which came from the village of Archer, Florida. That fraud is the departure point for Norman Gilliland's historical novel Sand Mansions, a remarkable story of carpetbag politics, get-rich-quick schemes, and hasty justice-a story based closely on events that shaped the history of northern Florida and the nation in the years 1876 to 1905.

Norman Gilliland has hosted weekday classical music broadcasts since 1977, beginning in Florida and continuing in Wisconsin. He is the creator of Grace Notes for a Year: Stories of Hope, Humor, and Hubris from the World of Classical Music, which has become a daily feature on a number of public radio stations nationwide. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. This is his first novel.

Grace Notes for a Year: Stories of Hope, Humor and Hubris from the World of Classical Music is also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Distributed for NEMO Productions, Madison, Wisconsin

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The cover of Sand Mansions is illustrated with a man riding a white horse through a southern forest.

January 2005  LC: 2004102208
572 pp.  6 3/4 x 9 5/8
4 b/w illus., 1 map
ISBN 0-9715093-1-X Cloth $24.95 t



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