The Twelve-Mile Straight
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2018
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-815868-2 (ISBN)
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-815868-2 (ISBN)
`Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent’ Ann Patchett
`A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers` Oprah Magazine
Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other.
Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.
In a house full of secrets, two babies – one light-skinned, the other dark – are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town.
`A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers` Oprah Magazine
Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other.
Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.
In a house full of secrets, two babies – one light-skinned, the other dark – are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town.
Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times and was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2018 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 850 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
ISBN-10 | 0-00-815868-1 / 0008158681 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-815868-2 / 9780008158682 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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