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Sweetbitter - Softcover

Gibbons, Reginald

 
9781737513421: Sweetbitter
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1737513420 ISBN 13: 9781737513421
Verlag: JackLeg Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Gibbons's first novel takes place in east Texas in 1910 during the time of white rule-not by law but by lynch mob. Amid the suffocating racism and fear, half-Choctaw, half-white Reuben Sweetbitter and Martha Clarke, a white woman, fall in love. Forbidden to be seen together, they escape to the town of Harriet, where an influential friend of Martha helps them settle down and raise a family. Atypical of love stories, this realistic work maintains a historical perspective in lending the couple short-lived happiness. Martha's brother James comes for vengeance, and Reuben flees to the forest, which has always been his refuge from the white world. Reuben and Martha's love is strong, but, dishearteningly, racism is stronger. Timely in the subject of interracial love, this authentic, richly detailed novel plumbs sacrifice, fear, and the loss of one's identity, bringing the anguish of the two young lovers to life. Highly recommended. -Library Journal

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Reginald Gibbons was born in Houston and grew up there. His novel Sweetbitter won the 1995 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Jess Jones Award for Best Novel, and was reprinted in paperback by Penguin, and then by LSU Press, and again in 2023 by JackLeg Press. Gibbons' two books of short/"flash" fiction are Five Pears or Peaches (out of print) and An Orchard in the Street (BOA Editions, 2017). He has published eleven books of poems, including Creatures of a Day (LSU), which was a Finalist for the National Book Award, and has won other awards, as well as writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, and a Fulbright fellowship (Spain).

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Verlag
JackLeg Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1737513420
ISBN 13 
9781737513421
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
452
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