Band of Angels (Voices of the South)
First published in 1955, Band of Angels is one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic and teacher, and author of dozens of books, Robert Penn Warren was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction...
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First published in 1955, Band of Angels is one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic and teacher, and author of dozens of books, Robert Penn Warren was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807119464 (0807119466)
Publish date: September 1st 1994
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Pages no: 375
Edition language: English
Motherless Amantha "Manty" Starr grows up white in Kentucky in the mid-1800s. She is coddled by her father and adored by his slaves. Her father dies when she's a teen, and she discovers that her mother was a slave. Without her father to protect her, she is then sold into slavery herself in New Or...
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