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David L. Robbins - Scorched Earth (ENGELSTALIG)
(Orion Ficion)
ISBN 0 75284 260 9
uitgave uit 2003
389 pp pocket
(zo goed als nieuw!)
Staat van het boek: 9.0
Congenital deformities cause Nora Carol, the daughter of Elijah and Clare Waddell of Good Hope, Va., to die within minutes of her birth. To minimize the parents' grief, Clare's mother arranges with the Rev. Thomas Derby to bury the infant as early as possible in the graveyard of her family church, the Victory Baptist Church. No sooner is the child interred, however, than the deacons object, because Elijah Waddell is black: this is the "white folks' church." It's not that they're racists, you understand, but Nora Carol must be dug up and reburied at the nearby black folks' church.
Book: david l robbins, scorched earth
The night of the reburial, the Victory Baptist Church burns to the ground, and Elijah is found next to it, drunk, dancing for joy?but adamantly denying that he set the blaze.
No one believes him, of course. His situation worsens when a body is discovered among the ashes. Worse, the body is of the brutish local sheriff's daughter, who, the post-mortem reveals, experienced both a broken jaw and sex not long before death. Elijah stands accused of arson, rape and murder.
Nat Deeds, a lawyer who fled Good Hope and his job when his marriage fell apart, is called back to defend Elijah. Nat finds it difficult to believe Elijah's story, and the emotional turmoil caused by the presence of Nat's estranged wife Maeve hampers his ability to concentrate on the case. Yet slowly his opinions shift. With Maeve's encouragement and sometimes help, Nat unravels a tangle of corruption, hypocrisy, racism and deceit that long predates Nora Carol's birth. He also realizes both the truth of that fatal night and the possibility of at least rapprochement between himself and his
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(Orion Ficion)
ISBN 0 75284 260 9
uitgave uit 2003
389 pp pocket
(zo goed als nieuw!)
Staat van het boek: 9.0
Congenital deformities cause Nora Carol, the daughter of Elijah and Clare Waddell of Good Hope, Va., to die within minutes of her birth. To minimize the parents' grief, Clare's mother arranges with the Rev. Thomas Derby to bury the infant as early as possible in the graveyard of her family church, the Victory Baptist Church. No sooner is the child interred, however, than the deacons object, because Elijah Waddell is black: this is the "white folks' church." It's not that they're racists, you understand, but Nora Carol must be dug up and reburied at the nearby black folks' church.
Book: david l robbins, scorched earth
The night of the reburial, the Victory Baptist Church burns to the ground, and Elijah is found next to it, drunk, dancing for joy?but adamantly denying that he set the blaze.
No one believes him, of course. His situation worsens when a body is discovered among the ashes. Worse, the body is of the brutish local sheriff's daughter, who, the post-mortem reveals, experienced both a broken jaw and sex not long before death. Elijah stands accused of arson, rape and murder.
Nat Deeds, a lawyer who fled Good Hope and his job when his marriage fell apart, is called back to defend Elijah. Nat finds it difficult to believe Elijah's story, and the emotional turmoil caused by the presence of Nat's estranged wife Maeve hampers his ability to concentrate on the case. Yet slowly his opinions shift. With Maeve's encouragement and sometimes help, Nat unravels a tangle of corruption, hypocrisy, racism and deceit that long predates Nora Carol's birth. He also realizes both the truth of that fatal night and the possibility of at least rapprochement between himself and his
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