The Lacuna

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Colins Inc
Publisher Place: USA
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 507 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Gripping Story Of Identity, Connection With Our Past, And The Power Of Words To Create Or Devastate.

Publishers Description: The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a mans search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America.Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salom. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in Americas hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach “ the lacuna “ between truth and public presumption. A gripping story of identity, loyalty and the devastating power of accusations to destroy innocent people. The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World.

ISBN: 9780571252640