The Empty Cell: a Novel - Softcover

Alden, Paulette

 
9780988518926: The Empty Cell: a Novel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0988518929 ISBN 13: 9780988518926
Verlag: Radiator Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In the wake of the lynching in 1947 of a young Black man named Willie Earle by a mob of cab drivers in Greenville, South Carolina, four people on the periphery of Earle’s life find their lives upended. Lee Trammell, one of twenty-eight cabbies acquitted at trial, is tortured by the idea that not guilty is not the same as innocent, and escapes in the only way he knows how. Alma Stone, who loved Willie when he was a child, loses her religion and flees the South, only to discover that Harlem is not the Promised Land she sought. Lawton Chastain, a closeted gay prosecutor, realizes he must destroy his settled married life if he is ever to have a chance at happiness. Betsy Chastain, on the cusp of adulthood, embarks on a passionate interracial affair that teaches her the power and limits of love and sex. Against the backdrop of the social and racial strictures of the fifties, each of these characters struggles to find his or her own version of freedom. Each experiences loss, sorrow, and growth as the South begins its long march toward racial equality. Deeply authentic, rich in psychological insight, and eloquently told, The Empty Cell will keep readers immersed in its pages from beginning to end.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

PAULETTE ALDEN is the author of two collections of autobiographical short stories, Feeding the Eagles and Unforgettable; a memoir, Crossing the Moon; and The Answer to Your Question, a novel. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she taught fiction and memoir courses for many years at the University of Minnesota. She now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where she was born and raised.

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Verlag
Radiator Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0988518929
ISBN 13 
9780988518926
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
420
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