Song of the shank : a novel /
In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refug...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother. |
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| Physical Description: | 570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781555976804 (pbk.) 1555976808 (pbk.) |