All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
The Haiti of this novel is a malarial, fetid place, haunted by its genocidal past. The slaves are planning a rebellion and the aristocratic French plantation owners are preparing to crush it. At the heart of the novel lies Toussaint Louverture, a self-educated, second-generation African slave.Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957 Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist. He is best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, including All Souls' Rising, which was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004. In addition to many books of fiction and non-fiction, he has published essays and reviews in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Village Voice.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140141177 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140141170 |
| Title | All Souls' Rising |
| Author | Madison Smartt Bell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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