The Confessions of Nat Turner - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0451095545 ISBN 13 : 9780451095541

Synopsis

Book by Styron William

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...

The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.

Quatrième de couverture

'Magnificent...a dazzling shaft of light...A triumph' New York Times

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.

See also: Darkness Visible

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451095545
• ISBN 13: 9780451095541
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible