Red River
By (Author) Lalita Tademy
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
9th August 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
448
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 71mm
306g
A heartbreaking and compelling story of a family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War.
From Sam Tademy, the son of a runaway slave, and his fiercely strong wife Polly, to the father and son who witness unspeakable crimes, this is a story in which courage and hope do battle with almost unendurable suffering; where real lives collide with history.Lalita Tademy's first novel,CANE RIVER, was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her summer book pick, and became a New York Times" bestseller forseventeen weeks.She lives and writes in Menlo Park, California.