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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings : A Novel by Stephen O'Connor (2016,...
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- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780525429968
- Book Title
- Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Biographical, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 29.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 624 Pages
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"Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson's life ever." -Ron Charles, Washington Post Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize Longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms. Novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks are a part of a long tradition of American fiction that plumbs the moral and human costs of history in ways that nonfiction simply can't. Now Stephen O'Connor joins this company with a profoundly original exploration of the many ways that the institution of slavery warped the human soul, as seen through the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. O'Connor's protagonists are rendered via scrupulously researched scenes of their lives in Paris and at Monticello that alternate with a harrowing memoir written by Hemings after Jefferson's death, as well as with dreamlike sequences in which Jefferson watches a movie about his life, Hemings fabricates an "invention" that becomes the whole world, and they run into each other "after an unimaginable length of time" on the New York City subway. O'Connor is unsparing in his rendition of the hypocrisy of the Founding Father and slaveholder who wrote "all men are created equal," while enabling Hemings to tell her story in a way history has not allowed her to. His important and beautifully written novel is a deep moral reckoning, a story about the search for justice, freedom and an ideal world--and about the survival of hope even in the midst of catastrophe.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525429964
ISBN-13
9780525429968
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215944015
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
29.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3565.C65t48 2016
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Advance Praise for Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings "I don't think I've ever read anything quite like this novel. It's a story about love; it's a history of oppression; it's an American epic of Homeric proportions. Stephen O'Connor has brought into this work what I have long admired in his other writings--a wild imagination, a commitment to social and political concerns, and elegant, at times elegiac, prose. This is a tour de force."--Mary Morris "This is an extraordinary book. It imagines the most intimate aspects of slavery in the way only fiction can--everything is freshly shocking and freshly human. And its wildly original use of dreamscape, fabulism, and philosophy gives us the layers these characters deserve, as it reinvents the historical novel."--Joan Silber
Copyright Date
2016
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2016-299027
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