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The Color of Lightning: A Novel

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#390790-ZE30
Titel	The Color of Lightning: A Novel
Auteur	Jiles, Paulette
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Harper Perennial
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	0061690457
ISBN13	9780061690457
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 349,16 pages, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children, searching for a life and a future. But their dreams are abruptly shattered by a brutal Indian raid upon the Johnsons' settlement while Britt is away establishing a business. Returning to find his friends and neighbors slain or captured, his eldest son dead, his beloved and severely damaged Mary enslaved, and his remaining children absorbed into an alien society that will never relinquish its hold on them, the heartsick freedman vows not to rest until his family is whole again. A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post-Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette ... (Lees verder)Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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Conditie	Goed — Name on title page.
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