Sweetsmoke, Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, New

Fuller, David

ISBN 10: 1401323316 / ISBN 13: 9781401323318

Published by Hachette Books, 2008

About this Item

Softcover, trade paperback format, Advance Reading Copy as printed on front cover, Condition: New, (Brand New), Unread, Very Tight Binding, never opened past copyright page, spine not broken, First Edition as stated, First Printing, Full #print line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as printed on copyright page, Publisher letter Laid-In as 1st page FROM: Leslie Wells/Executive Editor, TO: "Dear Colleague,.", Debut Novel, Also included in Advance is an 8 page section: "Questions for SWEETSMOKE author David Fuller" including Recommended Reading and Books on Slavery suggestions,Edgar Awards Best First Novel nominee (2009): "Sweetsmoke", also by David Fuller: ** Sweetsmoke (2008) Sundance (2014).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1687206121941

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweetsmoke, Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, New
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401323316
• ISBN 13: 9781401323318
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Reader's Copy
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything -- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the midst of a brutal and hellish war. No one but Cassius, who braves horrific dangers to escape the plantation and avenge her loss.

As Cassius seeks answers about Emoline's murder, he finds an unexpected friend and ally in Quashee, a new woman brought over from another plantation; and a formidable adversary in Hoke Howard, the master he has always obeyed.

With subtlety and beauty, Sweetsmoke captures the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within its own borders, and the lives of those people fighting for identity, for salvation, and for freedom.

About the Author

David Fuller has been a screenwriter for 25 years. He became fascinated with the role of African Americans in World War II as a young man when he befriended an African American pilot and worked closely with him for years. Fuller lives in Los Angeles with his wife, a VP for Twentieth Century Fox, and twin sons. Sweetsmoke is his first novel.