We Shall Not Be Moved - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988599791 ISBN 13: 9780988599796

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Páginas: 826 Géneros: 12:FA:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Sinopsis: Grace Temple is a free spirited woman who commits herself to the protection of her friend's daughter. Shirley Temple is a pint sized innocent who tries to find her own bearings in a life lived on the road. Abigail Spencer is a strong woman willing to go to extreme lengths to overcome secret abuse. Mavis Spencer is an African American married to a hatchet wielding maniac, while trying to survive in the Jim Crow South. These women are separated by generations, by wealth, by education, by race, indeed by almost every cultural and socioeconomic variable by which we determine a woman's place in the world. What they share are a common bloodline and a curse. There is a menace that intends to beat them down, for no other reason than that each of them tries to live out her life on her own terms. Maybe, they give life to this curse, keeping it alive for the next generation, allowing it to grow ever more devious, because of the decisions that they have made. Maybe, this curse survives through no fault of their own. Regardless, there will be a time of reckoning, and the women will need to overcome what is different between them, if they are to be a united force against this darkness._,

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Grace Temple is a free spirited woman who commits herself to the protection of her friend's daughter. Shirley Temple is a pint sized innocent who tries to find her own bearings in a life lived on the road. Abigail Spencer is a strong woman willing to go to extreme lengths to overcome secret abuse. Mavis Spencer is an African American married to a hatchet wielding maniac, while trying to survive in the Jim Crow South. These women are separated by generations, by wealth, by education, by race, indeed by almost every cultural and socioeconomic variable by which we determine a woman's place in the world. What they share are a common bloodline and a curse. There is a menace that intends to beat them down, for no other reason than that each of them tries to live out her life on her own terms. Maybe, they give life to this curse, keeping it alive for the next generation, allowing it to grow ever more devious, because of the decisions that they have made. Maybe, this curse survives through no fault of their own. Regardless, there will be a time of reckoning; and the women will need to overcome what is different between them, if they are to be a united force against this darkness.

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• ISBN 10: 0988599791
• ISBN 13: 9780988599796
• Einband: Tapa blanda