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Barbara Chase-Riboud - Sally Hemings - 9781860499524 - V9781860499524
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Sally Hemings

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Description for Sally Hemings paperback. Story based on historical fact recreating the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, who bore him seven children. This novel explores the intricate nature of love & hate, freedom & bondage from differing viewpoints. Num Pages: 464 pages, genealogy table. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.

The story, told in alternating time narratives, begins in 1831 when Sally is aproximately sixty years old and is visited by a census taker called Nathan Langdon. With encouragement, Sally recounts her past to him. A past that begins when she passes into the ownership of her half-sister Martha Wyles who marries Thomas Jefferson. After Martha dies, Jefferson goes to Paris where he is joined by his two daughters. Elizabeth Hemings volunteers Sally as their maid, seeing it as Sally's chance for freedom as slavery has been abolished in France. Jefferson and Sally fall in love and she returns to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860499524
SKU
V9781860499524
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally acclaimed sculptor, an author and a poet. Her editors include Toni Morrison and the late Jacqueline Kennedy, who edited the US edition of Sally Hemings. In 1996 she was knighted by the French Government in the Order of Arts and Letters.

Reviews for Sally Hemings
A successful novel by an experienced and gifted writer.
HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
One of the great American stories ... Vastly enjoyable.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Unforgettable ... Extremely affecting and poetic.
THE NEW REPUBLIC
Sally Hemings is noble and mysterious- a female cult object.
Mary McCarthy

Goodreads reviews for Sally Hemings


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