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Song Yet Sung

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29th September 2011

Price: £5.49

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444731804

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In the tense days before the American Civil War, in the swamplands of the Maryland shore, a wounded slave girl and her visions of the future tear a community apart in a riveting drama of hope and redemption.
Kidnappings, gunfights and chases ensue in this extraordinary story of violence, tragic triumph, and unexpected kindness.

Reviews

People
McBride keeps the suspense high as he raises troubling questions about slavery's legacy, the price of freedom and what it means to be human
<i>Publisher's Weekly</i> starred review
McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel . . . he nails the horrors of slavery as well as he does the power of hope and redemption
<i>New York Times</i>
Gripping . . . One often risks turning the pages so fast as to miss some of the richness and subtlety of the writing.
<i>Image</i> magazine
By turns tender and savage, McBride's novel is a harsh commentary on the inequalities in society both past and present
Washington Post Book World
Powerful . . . A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web
O, The Oprah Magazine
Gripping, affecting, and beautifully paced, Song Yet Sung illuminates, in the most dramatic fashion, a deeply troubled, vastly complicated moment in American history
Seattle Times
Engrossing
Kirkus (starred review)
McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice that recalls both William Faulkner's sagas of blighted generations and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Explosively dramatic
<i>Kirkus</i> starred review
In Denwood's grim, fatalistic pursuit of his destiny, McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice that recalls both William Faulkner's sagas of blighted generations and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Explosively dramatic.