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The Book of Negroes

The Award-Winning Classic Bestseller

The Book of Negroes( )
Author: Hill, Lawrence
ISBN:978-0-552-77548-9
Publication Date:Apr 2010
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Limited
Imprint:Black Swan
Book Format:Paperback
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Book Description:

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman. Abducted from her West African...
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Book Details
Pages:512
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Fiction / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.953 x 7.722 x 1.17 Inches
Book Weight:0.761 Pounds
Author Biography
Hill, Lawrence (Author)


Lawrence Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario. He earned a B.A. in economics from Laval University in Quebec City and later an M. A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Hill taught undergraduate fiction writing while completing his M.A. at Johns Hopkins, and since graduating has taught creative writing in numerous adult education programs. He has worked as a full-time newspaper reporter for The Globe and Mail and The Winnipeg Free Press. He has authored several books. Hill's nonfiction books include Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada , The Deserter's Tale: The Story of An Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, and Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning. Hill's fictional works include Some Great Thing, Any Known Blood ,The Book of Negroes, and The Illegal. The Book of Negroes won several awards including the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize.

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