Beth Macy

Truevine

An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love

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Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinary and moving story of two brothers from the American South who were stolen away to become circus freaks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781447278092
• ISBN-10: 1447278097
• Artikelnr.: 49621301

Autorenporträt

Beth Macy writes about outsiders and underdogs, and she is the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man. Her work has appeared in national magazines and newspapers and The Roanoke Times, where her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the Lukas Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
i: Prologue: I Am the True Vine * Chapter
1: Sit Down and Shut Up * Chapter
2: White Peoples Is Hateful * Chapter
3: And Still the Cry Against Us Continues * Chapter
4: your Momma Is Dead * Chapter
5: Some Serious Secrets * Chapter
6: A Paying Proposition * Chapter
7: He Who Hustleth While He Waiteth * Chapter
8: Comma, Colored * Chapter
9: The Prodigal Sons * Chapter
10: Not One Single, Solitary, Red Penny * Chapter
11: Adultery's Siamese Twin * Chapter
12: Housekeeping! * Chapter
13: Practically Imbeciles * Chapter
14: Very Good Old Colored Woman * Chapter
15: Wilbur and John * Chapter
16: God is Good to Me * o Section
ii: Epilogue: Markers o Acknowledgements
iii: Acknowledgements o Section
iv: Notes o Index
v: Index