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The Cutting Season - A Novel

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext " The Cutting Season is a novel about the shifting definitions of family! the persistent pull of history! the sterling promise of home! and the stunning power of love. It pulled me in and held me close to the very last page." Informationen zum Autor Attica Locke is the author of Black Water Rising , which was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the UK’s Orange Prize, and also the national bestseller The Cutting Season , which won an Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She is a producer and writer on the Fox drama Empire. She is on the board of directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, where she lives. Klappentext From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s  Empire: “ The Cutting Season  is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez,  New York Times  bestselling author of  Wench After her breathtaking debut novel,  Black Water Rising , won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with  The Cutting Season , a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier.  Black Water Rising  was nominated for a  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K. Zusammenfassung From Attica Locke! a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire: “ The Cutting Season  is a rare murder mystery with heft! a historical novel that thrills! a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez!  New York Times  bestselling author of  Wench After her breathtaking debut novel!  Black Water Rising ! won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos! Locke returns with  The Cutting Season ! a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries! one on Belle Vie! a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country! and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier.  Black Water Rising  was nominated for a  Los Angeles Times Book Prize! an Edgar® Award! and an NAACP Image Award! and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K. ...

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Authors Attica Locke
Publisher Harper Collins Usa
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.09.2012
 
EAN 9780062201461
ISBN 978-0-06-220146-1
No. of pages 576
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: African American & Black / Mystery & Detective, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: Southern

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