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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fire in Beulah (originale 2001; edizione 2001)di Rilla Askew (Autore)
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:??A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families ?? one white, one Black ?? whose lives are woven together and then shattered? (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter??s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories ?? and those of others close to them ?? unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city??s prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irr 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 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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