William Heffernan

Beulah Hill (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When looking for a house in Vermont, author William Heffernan grew intrigued by the region's fascinating racial history. Drawing on that history, he delivers a literary thriller involving the murder of a local racist in a town with a partly assimilated, but deeply resentful, black minority descended from slaves. By the 1930s, interracial marriages in a few communities had continued over several generations until succeeding progeny of original black families literally lost their color and, in the eyes of their neighbors, became white. Set against this vivid back-drop -- a time when the Great Depression had created an atmosphere of fear and bitterness and Adolph Hitler was just beginning his reign in Germany -- Beulah Hill tells the story of a white man who was murdered on land owned by the last remaining black family in a small town. Featuring the constable investigating the crime -- himself a conflicted member of the "bleached" underclass and intimately involved with the black woman at the center of the killing -- it is a gripping story. Depicting larger-than-life characters, including a black patriarch who rules "Beulah Hill" with an iron fist, Heffernan paints a startlingly authentic portrait of a town in the grip of prejudice, forbidden eroticism, and hard times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743214728
• Artikelnr.: 37830454

Autorenporträt

William Heffernan, who was an award-winning journalist and was nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of fifteen novels, including such bestsellers as The Corsican, Blood Rose, Corsican Honor, Tarnished Blue (winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1996), The Dinosaur Club (a New York Times bestseller), and Cityside. He lives in Vermont with his wife and three sons.