Sally Hemings: A Novel - Couverture souple

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1556529457 ISBN 13 : 9781556529450

Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2009

Synopsis

One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died―the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two million copies worldwide, Barbara Chase-Riboud re-creates one of America’s most powerful love stories, based on the documents and evidence of the day, and gives us a poignant, tragic, and unforgettable meditation on the history of race and sex in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Chase-Riboud is an acclaimed African-American novelist, poet, and sculptor. Her bestselling historical novels include Echo of Lions, Hottentot Venus, The President’s Daughter, and Valide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chicago Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1556529457
• ISBN 13: 9781556529450
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible