false 3185276 1 <P>The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything--punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life--to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the midst of a brutal and hellish war. No one but Cassius, who braves horrific dangers to escape the plantation and avenge her loss. <P><P>As Cassius seeks answers about Emoline's murder, he finds an unexpected friend and ally in Quashee, a new woman brought over from another plantation; and a formidable adversary in Hoke Howard, the master he has always obeyed.</p> <P>With subtlety and beauty, <i>Sweetsmoke</i> captures the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within its own borders, and the lives of those people fighting for identity, for salvation, and for freedom.</p> 3218138 book 1 9 2008 Sweetsmoke total:99|5:24|4:41|3:28|2:5|1:1| 99 379 227 42 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 19:35:42 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 19:36:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 12 07:58:42 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 07:59:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 09:11:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 05:26:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 18 13:36:34 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 19:58:12 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 03 09:04:07 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:05:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 16 15:12:01 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 22 20:16:33 -0700 2009
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Written By: David Fuller
Published By: Hyperion, 2008, First Edition, 320 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4013-2331-8

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