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The people from heaven / John Sanford ; introduction by Alan Wald.
Van Pelt Library PS3537.A694 P46 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanford, John, 1904-2003.
- Series:
- Radical novel reconsidered
- The Radical novel reconsidered
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--New York (State)--Fiction.
- African American women.
- New York (State).
- New York (State)--Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Political fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 232 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- An extraordinary novel told partly in verse, The People from Heaven takes place in 1943, the year it was originally published, in Warrensburg, New York, where Eli Bishop, a white shopkeeper, initiates a reign of terror on the populace following his rape of America Smith, a black woman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxvi).
- ISBN:
- 0252064917
- OCLC:
- 31782488
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