The Color of Lightning Paperback - 2010
by Paulette Jiles
From the author of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestsellers "Enemy Women" and "Stormy Weather" comes a stirring work of fiction set on the dangerous Texas frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War. A gripping, deeply relevant book.--"New York Times Book Review."
From the rear cover
In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children, searching for a life and a future. But their dreams are abruptly shattered by a brutal Indian raid upon the Johnsons' settlement while Britt is away establishing a business. Returning to find his friends and neighbors slain or captured, his eldest son dead, his beloved and severely damaged Mary enslaved, and his remaining children absorbed into an alien society that will never relinquish its hold on them, the heartsick freedman vows not to rest until his family is whole again.
A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post-Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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- Title The Color of Lightning
- Author Paulette Jiles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2010-06-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780061690457 / 0061690457
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.46 x 0.94 in (20.17 x 13.87 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Western stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 08/15/2010, Page 20
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