All Souls' Rising - Hardcover

Bell, Madison Smartt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394183509 ISBN 13: 9780394183503

Publisher: Pantheon, 1995

Synopsis

New Pantheon,, 1995.. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Bell's epic and highly praised novel of Haiti in the late 18th century and of the slave rebellion of 1790. Nominated for the National Book Award. SIGNED TWICE by the author - on a tipped in page (it says a lot about Bell's signature that these tipped in pages were bound in upside down) and on the title page, dated in the year of publication. 530 pp. Map endpapers.

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Review

In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors.

From the Inside Flap

One of the most prolific and gifted writers at work today presents an epic novel of astonishing depth and range about the black uprising in Haiti 200 years ago. A remarkable retelling of an episode of racial hatred at its most visceral and most unimaginably destructive, All Souls' Rising is Bell's most ambitious, most deeply satisfying novel to date.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394183509
• ISBN 13: 9780394183503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1