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3 Wise Blood th Violent Br It Awy Gd Mby O'ConnorISBN 0451081595 (0-451-08159-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Almost Innocentby Sheila BosworthISBN 0140084436 (0-14-008443-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 1589190629 (1-58919-062-9)
Softcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in Mitford'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
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- At Home in Mitford: ISBN 1589190637 (1-58919-063-7)
Softcover, Riveroak Pub - At Home in Mitford: ISBN 1574900714 (1-57490-071-4)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler - At Home in Mitford: ISBN 1863407073 (1-86340-707-3)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler - At Home in Mitford: ISBN 1589190629 (1-58919-062-9)
Softcover, David C Cook
- At Home in Mitford: ISBN 1589190637 (1-58919-063-7)
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like Me: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: ISBN 060600405X (0-606-00405-X)
Hardcover, Southgate Publishers - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451155300 (0-451-15530-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451163176 (0-451-16317-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0395251028 (0-395-25102-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
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Black Majorityby Peter WoodISBN 0394483960 (0-394-48396-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Majority'Book summary:A groundbreaking study of two cultures in early America.
Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. [via]More editions of Black Majority:
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellionby Peter H. WoodISBN 0393314820 (0-393-31482-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. [via]More editions of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion:
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion: ISBN 0393314820 (0-393-31482-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion: ISBN 0393007774 (0-393-00777-4)
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Club Deadby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1587249936 (1-58724-993-6)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Club Dead'Book summary:A New York Times Bestselling Author
An Anthony Award-winning AuthorThere's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that's Bill. But recently he's been a little distant - in another state, distant. His sinister and sexy boss has an idea where to look. But when Sookie finally finds Bill - caught in an act of serious betrayal - she's not sure whether to save him . . . or sharpen some stakes. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156189216 (0-15-618921-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. [via]
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Dead As A Doornailby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441013333 (0-441-01333-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead as a Doornail'Book summary:[via]When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.
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Dead To The Worldby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1596880163 (1-59688-016-3)
Hardcover, Large Print Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead To The World'Book summary:From Emma Bull's War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Dead Until Darkby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1587246309 (1-58724-630-9)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.
For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned- paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition.
And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse will be bigger than ever.More editions of Dead Until Dark:
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Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 8433920170 (84-339-2017-0)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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Dirty Workby Larry BrownISBN 1565125630 (1-56512-563-0)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Dream Boyby Jim GrimsleyISBN 1565121066 (1-56512-106-6)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Boy'Book summary:ALA Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Book Award. DREAM BOY confirms the immense promise of Jim Grimsley's award-winning debut, WINTER BIRDS. In his electrifying novel, adolescent gay love, violence, and the spirituality of old-time religion are combined through the alchemy of Grimsley's vision into a powerfully suspenseful story of escape and redemption. "I've never read a novel remotely like DREAM BOY; and my admiration for Jim Grimsley's power is widened and deepened."--Reynolds Price; "Translucent prose and emotional authenticity."--Out. A QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB SELECTION. [via]
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Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep Southby Rosemary DaniellISBN 1892514265 (1-892514-26-5)
Softcover, Hill Street Press, LLC
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Fox's Earthby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 1574901508 (1-57490-150-8)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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Foxfire Bookby Eliot WiggintonISBN 0613186699 (0-613-18669-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonby Eliot WiggintonISBN 0385073534 (0-385-07353-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moon: ISBN 0385073534 (0-385-07353-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moon: ISBN 038507350X (0-385-07350-X)
Growing up in South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literatureby Suzanne JonesISBN 0451628330 (0-451-62833-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Growing up in the Southby Suzanne W. JonesISBN 0451528735 (0-451-52873-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Jujitsu for Christby Jack ButlerISBN 0140103740 (0-14-010374-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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King's Oakby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 1560541377 (1-56054-137-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Last Girlsby Lee SmithISBN 0345464958 (0-345-46495-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0375702709 (0-375-70270-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
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A Light in the Windowby Jan KaronISBN 1574902555 (1-57490-255-5)
Softcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Light in the Window'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Like a Familyby Jacquelyn Dowd HallISBN 0393306194 (0-393-30619-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like a Family'Book summary:Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. [via]
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Mama Makes up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Livingby Bailey WhiteISBN 0201632950 (0-201-63295-0)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama Makes up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living'Book summary:In the tradition of Eudora Welty and Fannie Flagg, White writes about growing up in a small Southern town. She tells warm and funny stories about her cane-wielding Mama going into a juke joint, teaching first-graders, and more. Millions of listeners enjoy hearing Bailey White's tales on NPR's All Things Considered". [via]
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via]More editions of A Man in Full:
The Memory of Old Jackby Wendell BerryISBN 1582430438 (1-58243-043-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Most Southern Place on Earth : The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identityby James C. CobbISBN 0195045408 (0-19-504540-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identityby James Charles CobbISBN 0195089138 (0-19-508913-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Moviegoerby Walker PercyISBN 0375701966 (0-375-70196-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moviegoer'Book summary:This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one of the great existential texts of the postwar era and is really funny besides. Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational. [via]
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- The Moviegoer: ISBN 0380470764 (0-380-47076-4)
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Moviegoer: ISBN 0394437039 (0-394-43703-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Moviegoer: ISBN 0375701966 (0-375-70196-6)
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The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmakingby Paul GastonISBN 158838053X (1-58838-053-X)
Softcover, New South Inc
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells Allby Allan GurganusISBN 0375726632 (0-375-72663-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'Book summary:"Exuberant...Unforgettable."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Lucy Marsden, is narrowing in on her 100th birthday. She had been married to her husband William More Marsden since she was fifteen. But Willie, a veteran of the Civil War, never recovered from his youthful foray into battle, and more importantly, the loss of his closest friend. And the stories Lucy has to tell of the war, Willie, her life with him, and the tales she heard from his one-time slave Castalia, call to mind a time and a place, a history and a legacy that is not soon forgotten, and a call to justice that never should be.
"An old-fashioned book-lover's novel."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: ISBN 0517067692 (0-517-06769-2)
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Outer Banksby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0060538066 (0-06-053806-6)
Softcover, Perennial Pr
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twinsby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 1592241549 (1-59224-154-9)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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The Quotable Southby Al Dixon, Roy BlountISBN 1588180905 (1-58818-090-5)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Madeby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394716523 (0-394-71652-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made'Book summary:A reevaluation of the master-slave relationship in American history. [via]
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Rootsby Alex Haley, Michael Eric DysonISBN 1593154496 (1-59315-449-6)
Softcover, Vanguard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadnt been seen since the publication of Uncle Toms Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of Americas past.[via]
Over the years, both Roots and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whether Roots is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs in Roots were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.
But none of the controversy affects the basic issue. Roots fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed in Roots. Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publish Roots: The 30th Anniversary Edition to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time of Roots.
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 055327886X (0-553-27886-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubyfruit Jungle'Book summary:Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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Sarahby J. T. LeroyISBN 158234146X (1-58234-146-X)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah'Book summary:Sarah is the story of the prodigal son recast in the carnivalesque world of the highway truck stop and its environs. The narrator, an androgynous twelve year old boy, idolizes his mother Sarah, a "lot lizard", or truck-stop whore. He leaves the safety of the lot-a perversely idyllic kingdom ruled by Gladening Grateful Etc., a benevolent pimp who sent one of his boys to chef's school to cook gourmet meals at the truckstop diner-on a quest to become as famous as his mother. Adopting her name and sex, "Sarah" stumbles into dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. He hitches a ride to the famous luck-restoring Jack-a-lope, is mistaken for a saint and must prove himself by walking on water. When he is captured by LeLoup, Glad's violent rival, "Sarah"'s life is all but over. Will he perish at the hands of LeLoup, or will "Sarah" find his way home?[via]
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Scarlettby Alexandra RipleyISBN 844064048X (84-406-4048-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlett'Book summary:Si hubo alguna vez una mujer que dejara escapar al hombre de su vida, al unico que la amo incondicional y ciegamente, esa mujer frivila y caprichosa fue Scarlett O'Hara. Si hubo un hombre enamorado, que comprendiera y aceptara el caracter ambicioso, vulnerable y en ocasiones infantil de Scarlett, ese hombre fue Rhett Butler. La inolvidable protagonista de Lo que el viento se llevo inicia en esta novela una tenaz busqueda de la felicidad. Tara, las ciudades ocupadas por los yanquis, la Irlanda de los O'Hara y los caminos del dolor y el desamor son los escenarios en que se desarrolla la lucha de Scarlett por dar un nuevo sentido a su vida. La joven muchacha se transformara en una hermosa mujer, independiente y ambiciosa como en su juventud, pero mas humana y segura de si misma. / Picks up the story begun in Margaret Mitchell""s classic ""Gone With the Wind"". What happens to Ashley now that Melanie is gone? Does Scarlett find a way to get Rhett back? [via]
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So Red the Roseby Stark YoungISBN 1879941120 (1-879941-12-0)
Softcover, J S Sanders & Co
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Sounderby William Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 1557360030 (1-55736-003-0)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sounder'Book summary:Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog, his family must suffer their humiliation and crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and disappears. The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated Sounder doesn't change the fact that the sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on man's work to help support the family. His transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he searches for his father. But along this rough road he ultimately finds salvation as well.
William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel quickly became a classic as a moving portrayal of resilience and hope in the face of profound human tragedy. Decades later, the bittersweet story still rings true, as strong-spirited individuals continue to battle the evil of prejudice. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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South Carolina: A Historyby Walter B. EdgarISBN 1570032556 (1-57003-255-6)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old Southby Bertram Wyatt-BrownISBN 1597402362 (1-59740-236-2)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033438 (1-4000-3343-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.
As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."
Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Summer of My German Soldierby Bette GreeneISBN 3464068021 (3-464-06802-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer of My German Soldier'Book summary:When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing to risk losing family, friends--even her freedom--for what has quickly become the most important part of her life. Thoughtful, moving, and hard-hitting, Summer of My German Soldier has become a modern classic. [via]
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A Summons to Memphisby Peter TaylorISBN 0345346602 (0-345-34660-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Summons to Memphis'Book summary:Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revealing the patterns of social behavior that leave the individual at the mercy of a relentless past. In this, only the second novel of his long career and the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Taylor weaves a rich social web in telling the story of one family's stark social decline, symbolized by a move from Nashville to Memphis, and of the consequences through the years and down the generations. [via]
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A Summons to Memphisby Peter Hillsman TaylorISBN 0375701176 (0-375-70117-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Summons to Memphis'Book summary:Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revealing the patterns of social behavior that leave the individual at the mercy of a relentless past. In this, only the second novel of his long career and the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Taylor weaves a rich social web in telling the story of one family's stark social decline, symbolized by a move from Nashville to Memphis, and of the consequences through the years and down the generations. [via]
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These High, Green Hillsby Jan KaronISBN 1589190645 (1-58919-064-5)
Softcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'These High, Green Hills'Book summary:The village of Mitford is soothing tonic for a readership that feels starved for community and yearns for clear morals. The recently married Father Tim and his plain-folk neighbors live the best of Christianity in everyday life. Even the rampant gossip in Mitford is the good kind: folks worrying about other folks and everyone minding one another's business out of concern rather than malice. As a result, no one faces a crisis alone. Often the crises are cause for a belly laugh, such as the rectory's new computer system that seems programmed to torment. But just as often the crises have the bite of real-life problems, such as the bloody young girl in shredded clothes, whom Father Tim finds after she was beaten by her drunken father, and the soul-wrenching despair Father Tim feels when he loses a surrogate mother. The heavily quoted scripture gives a day-to-day context for biblical teachings as well as spiritual solace during the sadder days at Mitford. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Thirteen Moons: A Novelby Charles FrazierISBN 1400066395 (1-4000-6639-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thirteen Moons: A Novel'Book summary:Hardcover Limited Edition: Autographed by author; numbered and slipcased
This magnificent novel by one of Americas finest writers is the epic of one mans remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins for a brief moment a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Wills destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians including a Cherokee Chief named Bear he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokees homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that only desire trumps time.
Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a mans passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a mans destiny over the many moons of a life.
Fascinating&Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience&This is 21st-century literary fiction at its very best.
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Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient&.Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers&.For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched&.Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.
Los Angeles Times
Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life&Gorgeous.
New Orleans Times Picayune
Magical&the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving&You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.
USA Today
Incredibly powerful.
Melissa Block on NPR All Things Considered
Verdict: A powerhouse second act&.a brilliant success&Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies
Boston Globe
Warm hearted&Frazier is a remarkably meticulous and tasteful writer& Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel
and a highly readable book.
Seattle Times
Fiction of the highest order&Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.
Charlotte Observer
Splendidly written.
New York Daily News
What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic&.Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine&It was worth the wait.
Dayton Daily News
To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent&.No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Fraziers work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.
Denver Post
Two for two&Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident&Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.
Raleigh News & Observer
If current fiction is anything to go by, its hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyricism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life and real history. Frazier has done it&Thirteen Moons makes you feel that change that happened so long before our own time, and makes you mourn it.
Newsday
[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers high expectations.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain&fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Achingly beautiful descriptions of nature&Its rich, its beautiful.
Columbia State
Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South&.Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowfalls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald and hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair between Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-historic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melancholy refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gone and will never return.
Smoky Mountain News
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This One and Magic Life: a Novel of a Southern Familyby Anne GeorgeISBN 1585474339 (1-58547-433-9)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This One and Magic Life: a Novel of a Southern Family'Book summary:In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often simmers just beneath the surface. When a family fathers for a funeral at it's homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will either tear her siblings and their offspring apart or allow them to accept buried memories, wounds, and love. In This One and Magic Life, Anne Carroll George has created a brilliant portrait of a Southern family in all it's glory, captured in a moment of searing intensity and lyric truth. [via]
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Three by Flannery O'Connorby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0451525140 (0-451-52514-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three by Flannery O'Connor'Book summary:The quintessential Southern writer, O'Connor wrote fiercely comic, powerful fiction. This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. [via]
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A Time to Killby John GrishamISBN 0385338600 (0-385-33860-0)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time to Kill'Book summary:This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - A Time to Kill: ISBN 0385470819 (0-385-47081-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - A Time to Kill: ISBN 0385470789 (0-385-47078-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - A Time to Kill: ISBN 0385471122 (0-385-47112-2)
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Tom Sawyer: Library Editionby Mark TwainISBN 1857150449 (1-85715-044-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer: Library Edition'Book summary:Though now enshrined as major masterpieces of American literature, Twain's classic tales of childhood remain as fresh as when they were first written. Vivid and funny, the stories chronicle journeys from innocence to experience in which innocence is preserved. [via]
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1853260118 (1-85326-011-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Wild Palmsby William FaulknerISBN 039470262X (0-394-70262-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Palms'Book summary:Harry Wilbourne and his lover Charlotte escape from the snare of Chicago and the security that the city holds after he has performed an abortion on her. But the shades of the prison house, of death, seem to close around them as they turn their backs on life to conserve their love. [via]
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UN Homme, UN Vraiby Tom WolfeISBN 2266100114 (2-266-10011-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'UN Homme, UN Vrai'Book summary:1013pages. poche. broché. Charlie Croker, richissime promoteur de soixante ans, a bâti son immense empire à Atlanta. Il est le symbole de l'Amérique blanche triomphante -jusqu'à ce qu'un placement immobilier hasardeux le menace de banqueroute. Fareek Fanon, célèbre footballeur noir tout droit sorti du ghetto d'Atlanta, est accusé de viol par une riche et influente Blanche. Les émeutes raciales menacent la ville: Atlanta la Blanche, ville de pouvoir et d'argent, s'oppose à Atlanta la Noire. Charlie Croker, ancien champion universitaire de football, ne pourrait-il pas réconcilier les deux partis ? La confrontation entre ces deux univers, orchestrée par un jeune et brillant avocat de la bourgeoisie noire, dévoile une Amérique cosmopolite, gangrenée par le racisme et la violence, dans laquelle se joue une inoubliable comédie humaine. [via]
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