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Sweetsmoke Hardback - 2008

by David Fuller

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Set on a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1862, this novel follows a skilled carpenter and slave who risks everything to learn the truth concerning the murder of a freed black woman.

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The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything -- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the midst of a brutal and hellish war. No one but Cassius, who braves horrific dangers to escape the plantation and avenge her loss.

As Cassius seeks answers about Emoline's murder, he finds an unexpected friend and ally in Quashee, a new woman brought over from another plantation; and a formidable adversary in Hoke Howard, the master he has always obeyed.

With subtlety and beauty, Sweetsmoke captures the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within its own borders, and the lives of those people fighting for identity, for salvation, and for freedom.

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  • Title Sweetsmoke
  • Author David Fuller
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, New York
  • Publication date 2008-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9781401323318 / 1401323316
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 12
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Slavery
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008001939
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2008, Page 772
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/21/2008, Page 29
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/14/2008, Page 41

About the author

David Fuller has been a screenwriter for 25 years. He became fascinated with the role of African Americans in World War II as a young man when he befriended an African American pilot and worked closely with him for years. Fuller lives in Los Angeles with his wife, a VP for Twentieth Century Fox, and twin sons. Sweetsmoke is his first novel.
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