The Feast of All Saints

Rice, Anne

ISBN 10: 0671247557 / ISBN 13: 9780671247553

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1979

About this Item

Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1979. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of the First Edition. Very Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind, other than a remainder mark to the bottom edge. The Binding is vermilion (red-orange) quarter cloth to tan boards, colors uniform throughout, with a bright gilt hinge design on the front panel, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked vermilion endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, and intact, but for a small hole at the spine and wear to the top edge, with the original price ($14.95) intact on the front flap, See photos. 571 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". This historical novel, the author's second book, centers on the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, of New Orleans in the years before the Civil War. In particular, it is set in the 1840s and deals with race, especially as it affects family issues and struggles. The novel was the basis for the 2001 mini-series of the same name, that starred James Earl Jones, Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Ben Vereen, Jennifer Beals, Robert Ri'chard, Gloria Reuben, Peter Gallagher, Daniel Sunjata, among others. NOTE: this is a heavy book, weighing 974 4grams / 2 lb. 2.3 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0671247557 / ISBN 13: 9780671247553.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Feast of All Saints
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671247557
• ISBN 13: 9780671247553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 974 grams

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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.