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Genre/Form: | Biographical fiction Historical fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | Blind Tom; Blind Tom; Blind Tom; A Andrae |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffery Renard Allen |
ISBN: | 9781555976804 1555976808 |
OCLC Number: | 857967485 |
Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for Fiction, 2015. |
Description: | 570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Traveling undergroun (1866) -- Moving house : three views of the city (1867) -- Bird that never alights on the trees (1849-1856) -- Rain storm (1854-1856) -- Voice of the waves (1856-1862) -- The celebration of the living who reflect upon the dead (1867) -- Gold and rose (1868-1869) -- Song of the shank (1869) -- Underground (return) (1869). |
Responsibility: | Jeffery Renard Allen. |
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Abstract:
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
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