Family
a novel
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1991 - Doubleday, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,750 words, Guess
Page Count
231 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1876832M
- ISBN-100385411715
- OCLC Control Number21523735
- OCLC Control Numberfamilynovel00coop_0
- Library of Congress Control Number90036996
and 2 more
- Goodreads3509671
- LibraryThing282789
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3553.O5874 F36 1991
Description
In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. A slave mother, distraught that her children, sired by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them all.
First Sentence
HISTORY. LIVED, NOT WRITTEN, is such a thing not to understand always, but to marvel over.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
Other Editions
- Family: a novel
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