Back to Wando Passo
Returning home after inheriting a South Carolina rice plantation, a down-on-his-luck rock musician stumbles upon a voodou pot buried in the garden, a discovery that leads him back more than a century to the story of an illicit, interracial love affair.
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"A haunting portrait of the American South." -- Vanity Fair
"Astonishing.Masterfully interweaving contemporary and 19th century story lines, Payne crafts a tragic, suspenseful tale of necessity and desire." -- Lee Smith
"BACK TO WANDO PASSO is a mystery story inside a history story; a supernatural, psychological roller coaster ride ...Delicious."--Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation of Spirits and Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
"So bold in concept and audacious in scope that it seems like the summing up of a great writer's career."--Pat Conroy
"The work of a master story teller who knows precisely what he wants to do ... First rate, original, and haunting."--Craig Nova
"Destined to be a breakout publication...[Payne] is a master...Readers will gleefully embrace this book. It's big. It's exotic."--Asheville Citizen-Times
"A master fabulist, Payne hooks the reader like a wide-eyed catfish...a fine, twisty marvel."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Big in ideas, lush in its poetic text, large in its expansive reach through centuries...Payne is irresistible."--The State (Columbia, MD)
"A luscious, engaging, and heartfelt novel with plenty to say about individual responsibility and the legacy of slavery."--Library Journal, Editor's Pick
"Payne's richly ornate Southern saga... fashions elaborate prose and touching characterization into an absorbing tale."--Publishers Weekly
About the Author:
"Astonishing.Masterfully interweaving contemporary and 19th century story lines, Payne crafts a tragic, suspenseful tale of necessity and desire." -- Lee Smith
"BACK TO WANDO PASSO is a mystery story inside a history story; a supernatural, psychological roller coaster ride ...Delicious."--Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation of Spirits and Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
"So bold in concept and audacious in scope that it seems like the summing up of a great writer's career."--Pat Conroy
"The work of a master story teller who knows precisely what he wants to do ... First rate, original, and haunting."--Craig Nova
"Destined to be a breakout publication...[Payne] is a master...Readers will gleefully embrace this book. It's big. It's exotic."--Asheville Citizen-Times
"A master fabulist, Payne hooks the reader like a wide-eyed catfish...a fine, twisty marvel."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Big in ideas, lush in its poetic text, large in its expansive reach through centuries...Payne is irresistible."--The State (Columbia, MD)
"A luscious, engaging, and heartfelt novel with plenty to say about individual responsibility and the legacy of slavery."--Library Journal, Editor's Pick
"Payne's richly ornate Southern saga... fashions elaborate prose and touching characterization into an absorbing tale."--Publishers Weekly
David Payne lives in North Carolina, and is the author of four previous novels: Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, which won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award; Early from the Dance; Ruin Creek; and Gravesend Light. He welcomes comments from readers, and is available to speak with your book club. He can be reached at david@davidpaynebooks.com.
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0786172401
- ISBN 13 9780786172405
- BindingAudio CD
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