At The Full & Change Of The Moon - Hardcover

Brand, Dionne

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9780676971019: At The Full & Change Of The Moon
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0676971016 ISBN 13: 9780676971019
Publisher: Knopf Canada, 1999

Synopsis

A magnificent, shocking act of defiance by a woman in the 19th century begins this beautiful novel by an award-winning writer -- a richly imagined saga spanning six generations.

In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves called the Sans Peur regiment, plots a mass suicide -- a quiet, passionate act of revolt. It is also the beginning of a new world, because Marie Ursule cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away form the estate in the early dawn light. Bola's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will spill  out across the world to America, to Canada, to Europe. Their lives will be haunted and vindicated by Marie Ursule's dreams and her passion, as the world passes through two wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century.

In sensuous prose, At the Full and Change of the Moon tells, through the intimately interconnected stories of Marie Ursule's descendants, a history of dispossession. And the heartbreaking intensity and wisdom with which we are drawn into the lives and passions of each of them, confirms Dionne Brand in the front rank of the world's novelists.

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About the Author

Dionne Brand won the Governor General's Award for Poetry and The Trillium Award in 1997 for Land to Light On. Her novel In Another Place, Not Here was shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and she has been published in the U.S. and U.K. to great acclaim. Dionne Brand lives in Toronto.

From the Back Cover

"Dionne Brand has two gifts that are incendiary in combination: a concise and intelligent grasp of the subtleties of emotion and an apparently effortless facility with language. The result is an extraordinary ability to capture the flicker of experience."
-- The Globe and Mail

And in Vintage Canada Paperback

In Another Place, Not Here

A New York Times Editor's Choice and a New York Times Notable Book for 1998

"A must-read book for resisters and dreamers, and for those who believe that the integrity of individual and collective lives cannot be sustained without the ceaseless creation of words and language that reflect and insist on our humanity."
-- MS Magazine

"Passionate in its attention to emotional nuance and visual detail, In Another Place, Not Here weds beauty and a fierce intelligence."
-- The New York Times

"[It] reads with the urgent intensity of a wail that continues to echo."
-- The Washington Post


Bread Out of Stone

"Brand ... is one of the freshest, fiercest voices in Canadian letters."
-- Edmonton Journal

"In this collection [of essays] she can be seen as a cultural critic of uncompromising courage, an artist in language and ideas, an intellectual conscience for her country."
-- Adrienne Rich



From the Inside Flap

A magnificent, shocking act of defiance by a woman in the 19th century begins this beautiful novel by an award-winning writer -- a richly imagined saga spanning six generations.

In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves called the Sans Peur regiment, plots a mass suicide -- a quiet, passionate act of revolt. It is also the beginning of a new world, because Marie Ursule cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away form the estate in the early dawn light. Bola's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will spill  out across the world to America, to Canada, to Europe. Their lives will be haunted and vindicated by Marie Ursule's dreams and her passion, as the world passes through two wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century.

In sensuous prose, At the Full and Change of the Moon tells, through the intimately interconnected stories of Marie Ursule's descendants, a history of dispossession. And the heartbreaking intensity and wisdom with which we are drawn into the lives and passions of each of them, confirms Dionne Brand in the front rank of the world's novelists.

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Publisher
Knopf Canada
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0676971016
ISBN 13 
9780676971019
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
302
Rating
  • 3.85 out of 5 stars
    446 ratings by Goodreads

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