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Item Details
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SWEETSMOKE
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| By: |
David Fuller |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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£5.83 |
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£2.16 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349121532 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349121536 |
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| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2010 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
* A stunning debut novel of the struggle for freedom, set agains the turmoil of the American Civil War, and featuring the unforgettable Cassius, a slave working on a Virginia tobacco plantation - out now in paperback |
| Synopsis: |
The American Civil War is in full flame, and tobacco plantation slave Cassius Howard finds he must risk everything to learn the brutal truth concerning the murder of Emoline Justice, the freed black woman who secretly taught him to read and who once saved his life.Against an epic backdrop and with fleeting moments of redemptive passion, Sweetsmoke captures brilliantly the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, as well as the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within itself, and the lives of myriad people fighting for freedom. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Abacus |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for CWA Daggers: John Creasey (New Blood) 2009 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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