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Take One Candle Light a Room

Name: Take One Candle Light a Room
Author: Susan Straight

Auteur: Susan Straight

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Susan Straight

Engels
Hardcover
9780307379146
12 oktober 2010
320 pagina's

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From the author of A Million Nightingales (a writer of exceptional gifts and graceJoyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together.

Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorettes twenty-two-year-old sonand Fantines godsonVictor. After getting involved in a shooting, Victor has fled to New Orleans. Together with her father, Fantine follows Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he suddenly seems destined for.

Fantines own fate will be altered on this journey as well: her father will reveal the wrenching secrets of his past, and she will be compelled to question the most essential choices shes made in her life. As they cross from California to the heart of Louisiana, all three characters will come face-to-face with the issues of race that beset them: Fantine, whose light skin has allowed her a kind of invisibility; her father, who grew up in the Jim Crow South and has tried to guard his family against that world; and Victor, whose fall into violence mirrors the path of so many other young black men. For Fantine, finding Victor could offer them both a way to face the past and decide between different futures.

Powerful and moving, Take One Candle Light a Room illuminates the intricacies of human connection and the ways in which we find a place for ourselves within our families and the world.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 oktober 2010
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Susan Straight
Hoofduitgeverij: Random House Inc

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Editie: 1
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm
Verpakking lengte: 240 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 295 g

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EAN: 9780307379146

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