Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Willa Cather's twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather's Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery--conflicts in which Cather's family members were deeply involved, both as slave owners and as opponents of slavery. Cather, at five years old, appears as a character in an unprecedented first-person epilogue. Tapping her earliest memories, Cather powerfully and sparely renders a Virginia world that is simultaneously beautiful and, as she said, terrible.…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-1435-4
- EAN: 9780803214354
- Produktnummer: 4466524
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 774 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D5.8 cm 1'293 g
- Auflage: Critical
- Gewicht: 1293
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