9780679439899: All Souls' Rising

Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous Haiti, a group of black slaves plans a rebellion while their aristocratic French plantation owners prepare to crush them, and the self-educated Toussaint emerges from the fray. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including The Stone That the Builder Refused; Master of the Crossroads; Save Me, Joe Louis; Dr. Sleep; Soldier's Joy; and Ten Indians. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and teaches at Goucher College.



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ost prolific and gifted writers at work today presents an epic novel of astonishing depth and range about the black uprising in Haiti 200 years ago. A remarkable retelling of an episode of racial hatred at its most visceral and most unimaginably destructive, All Souls' Rising is Bell's most ambitious, most deeply satisfying novel to date.

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