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Charm City
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95With a writer?s keen eye, a longtime resident?s familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding before the Revolutionary War to its place in popular... more...
The Stone that the Builder Refused
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell?s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution?the first successful slave revolution in history?which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of these three... more...
Master of the Crossroads
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell?s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his struggle against the great European powers to free his people in the only successful slave revolution in history. At the outset,... more...
All Souls' Rising
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious... more...
Devil's Dream
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America?s Civil War. We see Forrest on and off the... more...
Toussaint Louverture
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian rebels had defeated the Spanish, British, and French and declared independence after the first?and only?successful slave revolt in history. Much of the success of the revolution must be credited... more...
The Color of Night
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure anarchy, thrills at the destruction. These... more...
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