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Sweetsmoke 

Sweetsmoke (2008)
A novel by David Fuller

 
Awards
Edgar Awards (nominee)
"With Sweetsmoke, David Fuller gives an extraordinarily nuanced, privileged, and convincing view of the world of slavery during the American Civil War, and of the hearts and minds of the men and women who had to live in that world."
Madison Smartt Bell


"Sweetsmoke is a fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love story, and a harrowing portrait of slavery that reads with the immense power of the slave narratives. A tour de force for David Fuller."
Pat Conroy


"David Fuller vividly and movingly describes the life of Cassius, a slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Sweetsmoke resonates with unforgettable characters and is a gripping story of loss and survival."
Robert Hicks


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.

 
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Hardback Editions

January 2009 : Hardback
Title: Sweetsmoke (Basic)
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: 1410411842 / 9781410411846 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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September 2008 : Hardback
Title: Sweetsmoke : a novel / by David Fuller
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: 1401323316 / 9781401323318 (USA edition)
Publisher: New York : Hyperion
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Paperback Editions

July 2010 : Paperback
Title: Sweetsmoke
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ISBN: 0349121532 / 9780349121536 (UK edition)
Publisher: Abacus
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September 2009 : Paperback
Title: Sweetsmoke
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ISBN: 1401310052 / 9781401310059 (USA edition)
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January 2009 : Paperback
Title: Sweetsmoke
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: 0349121559 / 9780349121550 (UK edition)
Publisher: Abacus
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February 2009 : Paperback
Title: Sweetsmoke
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: 0349121524 / 9780349121529 (UK edition)
Publisher: Abacus
Availability: Amazon UK   

Audio Editions

2008 : Audio CD
Title: Sweet Smoke
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: 1436155614 / 9781436155618
Publisher: Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon   

Kindle Editions

August 2008 : Kindle edition
Title: Sweetsmoke
Author(s):: David Fuller
ISBN: B001E70RSS
Publisher: Hyperion
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