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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | Susan Straight | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Hyperion Books | | Edition: | 1 | | | ISBN-10: | 0786860863 | | Category: | -- | | | | | | | | | Publication Year: | 1996 | | Condition: | -- | | | Special Attributes: | 1st Edition | | | | | | |
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| Synopsis | A continuation of Straight's chronicle of black family life, set in a California city outside Los Angeles. For years, the Thompson family has lived on a piece of land along an old canal; when the bodies of two white women are found on the property, the Thompsons become the focus of a police investigation--all this during the time of the Rodney King beating. Marcus Thompson, one member of the family who has escaped the poverty of the "gettin place," finds himself drawn back into his family loyalties.
| | Size | | Length: | 488 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.8 in. | | Weight: | 31.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | In the third novel by the author of Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, the Thompson clan tries to deal with the chaos after their family patriarch finds the burning bodies of two white women on his property and is then accidentally gunned down by police. Tour.
| | Industry reviews | "Susan Straight's third novel...is a sprawling family saga and murder mystery populated by five generations of the African-American Thompson clan, and it is extraordinarily detailed in its depiction of place and dialect."
Nation - Molly E. Rauch (07/15/1996)
"'The Gettin Place' is a difficult book to put down but also, in all the best ways, a hard book to read. Tough, uncompromising, unsentimental, free from romantic fantasy and reassuring cliche, it may tell too much of the harsh truth for some readers' tastes. But others will certainly find it to be the most entertaining and rewarding sort of thriller: not merely suspenseful but also thrilling in its honesty, its courage, its range and revelations."
Washington Post Book World - Francine Prose (07/21/1996)
"...[A] painful story, violent, ultimately sinister, and most expertly written."
Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams (09/19/1996)
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