THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS

Rice, Anne

ISBN 10: 0671247557 / ISBN 13: 9780671247553

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979

About this Item

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition, first printing. The author's second novel. Historical novel set in New Orleans in the 1840s about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. Basis for a 2001 television miniseries. Small remainder stamp on the bottom edge of the text block, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket priced $14.95 on the front flap with sunned spine panel and pin hole-sized nick at lower edge of the spine panel. (#178755).

Seller Inventory # 178755

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671247557
• ISBN 13: 9780671247553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Filmed Books

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Synopsis

Marcel, a member of New Orlean's mulatto elite in the 1840s, yearns to pursue his education and one day go to Paris, while his raven-haired sister, Marie, would willingly defy the traditional wisdom of her class and marry a youth darker than herself

From the Inside Flap

before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.