The Mercy Seat
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Weight | 0.22 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.8 × 12.8 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 272 |
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Year Published | 2019-2-7 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 147367252X |
About The Author | Elizabeth H. Winthrop graduated from Harvard University in 2001 with a BA in English and American Literature and Language, and in 2004 she received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the University of California at Irvine. Fireworks, her first novel, was published by Sceptre in 2006, her second, December, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for 2009 (both published by Knopf in the US) and her third, The Why of Things, was published in 2013. Born and raised in New York City, she now resides in Gloucester, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter. |
It takes a brave writer to compose a novel about the execution of an African-American man in the Deep South when the topic has previously been brought to life by authors like Harper Lee and Ernest Gaines. There are multiple possibilities for failure: preachiness, melodrama and bias, to name a few. But Elizabeth H. Winthrop avoids these hazards by writing well, demonstrating once again that while the subject matter is the body of the narrative, the prose itself is the soul and the thing that makes a topic new . . . [The novel] gathers great power as it rolls on propelled by its many voices. |
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Other text | An unforgettable novel – a riveting, heart-wrenching story of injustice and racism in 1940s Louisiana that is as powerful and profound as it is timely. |
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