The Known World

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Perenial
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 388 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Henry Townsend A Black Farmer And Former Slave Was Tutored By William Robbins, A Powerful Man In Manchester County. When He Dies Suddencly His Wife Is Unable To Uphold The Estate's Order And Chaos Breaks Out.

Publishers Description: Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American literature. Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, becomes proprietor of his own plantation - as well as his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend household, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave `speculators' sell free black people into slavery, and rumours of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served

ISBN: 9780007195305