THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS

Rice, Anne

ISBN 10: 0671247557 / ISBN 13: 9780671247553

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979

About this Item

Inscribed first printing of Rice's historical novel, centered on the social position of the free people of color in 1840s New Orleans. THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS was adapted into a 2001 Showtime miniseries in which, through the magic of flashbacks, Peter Gallagher played the father of James Earl Jones. The spectacular cast also included Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Ben Vereen, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Beals, and, in a small but notable vampire connection, Bianca Lawson. 9.25'' x 6''. Original gilt-stamped quarter red cloth with speckled cream boards. Red endpapers. In original unclipped ($14.95) dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. 571, [1] pages. Inscribed with "All blessings" by Rice on front free endpaper. Book with light wear, spot of staining to top of rear board, publisher's device stamped in black to bottom edge of text block. Jacket with light edgewear and soiling, sunning to spine.

Seller Inventory # 52753

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: First edition.
• Condition: Very good in very good jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit

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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.