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A shout in the ruins

by Kevin Powers

Race relationsPlantationsPlantation ownersHistorySlaveryFictionFiction, historicalUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction

A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.

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Book data: Open Library