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A Cry of Absence: A Novel (Voices of the South) - Softcover

Jones, Madison

 
9780807115794: A Cry of Absence: A Novel (Voices of the South)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807115797 ISBN 13: 9780807115794
Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 1995

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Set in 1957 in a small Tennessee town just awakening to shifting racial and social attitudes, the novel concerns the inevitability of change and the consequences for those who resist it.
Hester Cameron Glenn, a proud, well-bred southern aristocrat, is the self-appointed guardian of her family's and her community's heritage. When a young black man is chained to a tree and stoned to death, Hester deplores the brutality of the act. Slowly she comes to suspect, and finally to know, who his real murderer is, and she decides what she must do to protect the family honor.

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Madison Jones is University Writer-in-Residence Emeritus at Auburn University.

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Set in 1957 in a small Tennessee town just awakening to shifting racial and social attitudes, the novel concerns the inevitability of change and the consequences for those who resist it. Hester Cameron Glenn, a proud, well-bred southern aristocrat, is the self-appointed guardian of her family's and her community's heritage. When a young black man is chained to a tree and stoned to death, Hester deplores the brutality of the act. Slowly she comes to suspect, and finally to know, who his real murderer is, and she decides what she must do to protect the family honor.

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Verlag
Louisiana State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807115797
ISBN 13 
9780807115794
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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