Visible Empire

An epic novel--based on true events--of love, grief, race, and wealth, charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged On a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta’s most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. It is the second-deadliest disaster in the history of aviation. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes. Left behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friends faced with renegotiating their lives. Robert, a newspaper editor, must decide if he can reconnect with his beloved but estranged wife, whose swindler parents have left her penniless. Nineteen-year-old Piedmont Dobbs, recently denied admission to an integrated school, senses a moment of uncertain opportunity. And Mayor Ivan Allen is tasked with the job of moving Atlanta forward--the hedonism of the 60s and the urgency of the Civil Rights movement at his city’s doorstep. Visible Empire is the story of a husband and wife who can’t begin to understand each other until chaos drives them to clarity. It’s a story of the promise and hope that remain in the wake of crisis.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hannah Pittard
• Verlag: Ecco Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780544748064
• ISBN: 978-0-544-74806-4
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Literature / General Fiction