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Appartiene alle SerieBenjamin January (short story)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: A novelette of 13,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. Benjamin is out of town again, and his wife Rose attends a party with her obnoxious mother-in-law, at a plantation owned by a free colored relative. When the white mistress of the neighboring plantation is murdered, and the house burned, it seems obvious that one of the household slaves committed the crime - but Rose seeks to prove differently. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999VotoMedia:
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There is a fire at a neighbouring plantation, and the burned body of a white woman - the mistress of the plantation - is discovered. Her maid is blamed, and all the slaves on the plantation are at risk of being executed for complicity in the death. Naturally, Rose investigates.
It was good to see Rose on her own - I do like Ben, but it's nice for Rose to have her time in the sun. Hannibal also has a part to play, as does Lieutenant Shaw. For me, though, the character that really stole the show was Livia, Ben's mother. I know a lot of people don't like her, and you could see her as a straightforward gossip and crashing snob, but I see her as much more complex than that. In this little novelette, we get a tiny little window into Livia's world - the world of a woman who was a slave through the whole earlier part of her life, had to give up her husband and the father of her two children, and has finally "made it" to the upper echelons of New Orleans free-coloured society. Livia Levesque is neither stupid nor shallow, and this novelette shows that quite nicely. ( )