Sapphira And The Slave Girl (VMC) - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860685071 ISBN 13: 9780860685074

Verlag: Virago, 2000

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She is undoubtedly one of the century's greatest American writers (OBSERVER)

Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic (Helen Dunmore)

This, her last novel, is a stirring and beautifully executed depiction of a society that has vanished forever (Belfast TELEGRAPH)

Reseña del editor:

Originally published in 1940, this is Cather's last novel, a retrospective portrait of a society and conditions that have vanished forever in the Old South. The stain of slavery is seen through the relationship of Sapphira Colbert to her black maid, Nancy.

Sapphira presides over her Back Creek Valley property with disciplined resolution; her husband, Henry, runs the Mill and sleeps there too, their marriage a formality. By 1865 Sapphira is one of the few Virginians who still owns slaves, a policy Henry finds increasingly difficult to countenance. Sapphira's life is an arid one and, confined to a wheelchair, she has ample opportunity for speculation. When she overhears a conversation linking her husband's name with Nancy, that speculation festers and the horrific potential of Sapphira's power is unleashed . . .

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0860685071
• ISBN 13: 9780860685074
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320