Lady Moses (Virago V S.) - Softcover

Roy, Lucinda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860495389 ISBN 13: 9781860495380

Verlag: Virago, 1999

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Powerful writing (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE)

I was not there when Charlie Parker started playing between the notes; I could not be there when Billie Holiday pondered the fruit of southern trees ... but musicians aren't the only ones who sing, and I am here when Lucinda Roy makes her startling debut w (NIKKI GIOVANNI)

Roy has created a powerful character in Jacinta ... unflinchingly honest, Jacinta is by turns fascinating and infuriating but always fully human (LIBRARY JOURNAL)

A dazzling debut. Roy handles her complex plot with impressive authority as she tackles themes of racial identity, mental illness and female self-reliance (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

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As her mother lies on her death bed, Jacinta Moses attempts to reconstruct - to give dignity to - their life in Lavender Sweep, Clapham. The days of grandeur when her father, Simon Moses - African tribesman and London scholar - charmed the world and her mother with his wisdom and native songs. The days of joy when one of Britain's first interracial couples defied local gossips with their passion for life and each other. The days before Lady, before Manny, before Esther, before John. Before something terrible transformed Easter. Moving from Clapham to America and Africa, 'Lady Moses' is an epic, heart-warming first novel of three generations of Moses women and their fight for sanity, dignity and self-respect

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860495389
• ISBN 13: 9781860495380
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416