Mariner Books Classics
Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) (-50th Anniversary)
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Author: Margaret Walker
ISBN: 9780544812123
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
E 1684382
Publisher Description:
A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage. "New York Times Book Review Jubilee "tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress.Vyry bears witness to the South s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.Weaving her own family s oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker s novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light."Jubilee "churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history."
