Freshwater Road - Couverture souple

Nicholas, Denise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1572841958 ISBN 13 : 9781572841956

Editeur : Surrey Books,U.S., 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in Freedom Summer, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. As the long, hot summer unfolds, Celeste befriends several members of the community, but there are also those who are threatened by her and the change that her presence in the South represents. Finding inner strength as she helps lift the veil of oppression and learns valuable lessons about race, social change, and violence, Celeste prepares her adult students for their showdown with the county registrar. All the while, she struggles with loneliness, a worried father in Detroit, and her burgeoning feelings for Ed Jolivette, a young man also in Mississippi for the summer.

Revue de presse :

"A bold new novel that explores the fault lines of class and race in 1964 Mississippi."

-- The Washington Post

"Breathtaking...Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement."

-- Newsday (New York)

"Hypnotic...[Nicholas] conjures an insidious mood of fear and writes with lyrical prose."

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes terrifying, this novel marks the debut of a talented writer."

-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Surely the best work of fiction about the civil rights movement since Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."

-- The Washington Post

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Surrey Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1572841958
• ISBN 13: 9781572841956
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346