Godina izdanja: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4013-2331-8
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Sweetsmoke Hardcover – September 1, 2008
by David Fuller (Author)

Product details
Publisher: ‎ Hachette Books (September 1, 2008)
Language: ‎ English
Hardcover: ‎ 320 pages
Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight: ‎ 1.43 pounds
Dimensions: ‎ 6.25 x 9.25 inches

The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything -- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the midst of a brutal and hellish war. No one but Cassius, who braves horrific dangers to escape the plantation and avenge her loss.
As Cassius seeks answers about Emoline`s murder, he finds an unexpected friend and ally in Quashee, a new woman brought over from another plantation; and a formidable adversary in Hoke Howard, the master he has always obeyed.
With subtlety and beauty, Sweetsmoke captures the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within its own borders, and the lives of those people fighting for identity, for salvation, and for freedom.

Biography
After twenty-five years toiling in the Hollywood studio system, David Fuller has abandoned the movies and now lives quietly as a recovering screenwriter.
David Fuller was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until, at age 7, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Three years later, the family moved to Barcelona, Spain for a year. Then back to the States for the sixth grade.
Fuller spent a year at the Rhode Island School of Design, intending to become a painter. He gave up that dream and later graduated from Brown University.
Of the more than fifty screenplays Fuller has written, many were sold and a few were made into movies or TV pilots. A handful of them have his real name on them. Others carry his pseudonym. The ones with his actual name include Necessary Roughness, The Heist, and Gang in Blue.
He wrote and directed the Imagen nominated short film The Ticket, for Fox Searchlab.
His first novel, SWEETSMOKE, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, as well as being shortlisted for a John Creasy `New Blood` Dagger Award in Great Britain. It was a Discover Great New Writers pick for Barnes & Noble, and an Original Voices pick for Borders.
​Fuller lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife of more than thirty years, while his excellent and amusing sons are in college.
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