Beschreibung
🎧Run Time = 9 hours and 19 minutes
“A vivid listening experience” (AudioFile) performed by a full cast: As city girl Laura struggles to adjust to her new farm life, her unexpected friendship with sharecropper Florence is complicated by postwar traumas and tensions in the Jim Crow South. This poignant novel that inspired an Academy Award–nominated film “is storytelling at the height of its powers” (Barbara Kingsolver).
Hillary Jordan’s mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
“A vivid listening experience” (AudioFile) performed by a full cast: As city girl Laura struggles to adjust to her new farm life, her unexpected friendship with sharecropper Florence is complicated by postwar traumas and tensions in the Jim Crow South. This poignant novel that inspired an Academy Award–nominated film “is storytelling at the height of its powers” (Barbara Kingsolver).
Hillary Jordan’s mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
Buchdetails
Format
Hörbuch
Länge
1 min
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Mär 1, 2022
Verlag
Blackstone Publishing, Inc.
Ausgaben
47 Ausgaben
ISBN-13
9798212157742