Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) - Margaret Walker
Fiction, Historical
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition
By: Margaret Walker
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 09-06-16
Language: English
Publisher's Summary
The 50th-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic, with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
“Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage.” —New York Times Book Review
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.
Weaving her own family's oral history with 30 years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.
About the Author
MARGARET WALKER (1915−1998) was one of America's most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. She first gained national recognition with the 1942 poetry collection For My People, a winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. She was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her novel Jubilee, which became a national bestseller. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage.
