DĂ©tails du livre
Format
livre numérique
Pages
354
Langue
Anglais
Publié
Mar 4, 2008
Éditeur
Algonquin Books
Description
🎧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.
Genres
Science-fiction
Enfants
Action & Aventure
Horreur