Sweetbitter - Hardcover

Gibbons, Reginald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0913089516 ISBN 13: 9780913089514

Publisher: Broken Moon Pr, 1994

Synopsis

In this powerful debut as a novelist, Reginald Gibbons tells the tale of a Choctaw who has lost contact with his heritage but who cannot belong to the world of whites either. When he meets Martha Clarke--an unconventional 19-year-old white girl--he finds himself in a forbidden relationship amid the explosive lynching fever of turn-of-the-century Texas.

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From the Back Cover:

Turn-of-the-century East Texas. A world that offers no home for Reuben Sweetbitter, a young half-Choctaw, half-white man. Left as a child to fend for himself after the death of his mother, he finds his uneasy way through the world, searching always for a place to belong. He has lost contact with his Choctaw heritage and yet can belong neither to the white world nor that of the blacks who give him shelter. He finds his way to the town of Three Rivers, where he falls in love with Martha Clarke, the young, headstrong daughter of a local lawyer. Their forbidden love is tested when they are forced to flee amid an explosive lynching climate.

About the Author:

Reginald Gibbons is the author of seven books of poetry and two of fiction. An editor, translator, critic, and essayist as well, he has received the Carl Sandburg Award, the Balcones Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Jesse Jones Fiction Award, among other honors. He grew up in a semirural area near Houston, Texas, and is one-eighth Choctaw. He is a professor of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broken Moon Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0913089516
• ISBN 13: 9780913089514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 421