All Souls' Rising - Softcover

Bell, Madison Smartt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140259473 ISBN 13: 9780140259476

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1996

Synopsis

Second-generation African slave Toussaint-Louverture, determined to resist the excesses of the mob and still put an end to brutal French domination, is joined by black, white, rich, poor, free, and enslaved characters to form an unstoppable Haitian insurrection. Reprint.

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Review:

In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors.

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ost prolific and gifted writers at work today presents an epic novel of astonishing depth and range about the black uprising in Haiti 200 years ago. A remarkable retelling of an episode of racial hatred at its most visceral and most unimaginably destructive, All Souls' Rising is Bell's most ambitious, most deeply satisfying novel to date.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140259473
• ISBN 13: 9780140259476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544