Band of Angels
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast panorama of one of the most turbulent periods of American history as seen through the eyes of this star-crossed young woman. Amantha soon finds herself in New Orleans, where she spends the war years with Hamish Bond, a slave trader. At war's end, she marries Tobias Sears, a Union officer and Emersonian idealist. Despite sporadic periods of contentment…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-1946-4
- EAN: 9780807119464
- Produktnummer: 9036312
- Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 386 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 485 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 485
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