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100 1 _aJordan, Hillary,
_d1963-
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245 1 0 _aMudbound :
_ba novel /
_cby Hillary Jordan.
264 1 _aChapel Hill, N.C. :
_bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
_c2008.
300 _a328 pages ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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380 _aBook
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380 _aFiction
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385 _aGeneral
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500 _a"Winner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction"--Jacket.
520 _aJordan's poignant and moving debut novel, winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize, takes on social injustice in the postwar Mississippi Delta. Here, two families, the landowning McAllans and their black sharecroppers, the Jacksons, struggle with the mores of the Jim Crow South. Six distinctive voices narrate the complex family stories that include the faltering marriage of Laura and Henry McAllan, the mean-spirited family patriarch and his white-robed followers, and returning war heroes Jamie McAllan and Ronsel Jackson. In every respect, the powerful pull of the land dominates their lives. Henry leaves a secure job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to buy their farm, never noticing that the refined and genteel Laura dreams of escaping the pervasive mud and dreary conditions of farm life. Ronsel, encouraged by his war-hero status as a tank commander, wants to break away from the past and head North to a better future, while his parents, knowing no other life but farming, struggle to buy their own land. Jordan faultlessly portrays the values of the 1940s as she builds to a stunning conclusion. Highly recommended for all public libraries.Donna Bettencourt
586 _aWinner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction
650 0 _aFarm life
_zMississippi
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xVeterans
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650 0 _aAfrican American veterans
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650 0 _aRace relations
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655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
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852 _9p$22.95
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