- Kentucky, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military
Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Robert Penn Warren
- First published
- June 7, 1977
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Signet Book, New English Library
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, heb
- ISBN
- 9780436563119
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“OH, WHO AM I?”
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University.
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