Author: Lent, Jeffrey,
Title: In the Fall.
Description: NY, Vintage Books, (2001). 1st ed 3 prntg. VG PB. "There are pasages so beautiful they will take your breath away" " USA Today You can hear echoes of Faulkner and Cormac. McCarthy but the presiding geniuses of this dark novel are Robert Frost and the artist Winslow Homer,.flint-eyed Yankeees who nver saw a paradize that didn't have a snake." Newsweek At the close of the Civil War the son of a Vermont farmer is found wounded in the woods by Leah, an escaped slave. The two become lovers as Leah nurses Norman back to health and journey north together as man and wife. But Leah harbors a secret that will rend what the lovers have wrought. Her son, Jamie, escapes rural Vermont and passing for white enters the outwardly glamorous world of northern resorts. But he can no more escape the past than could his mother. It is his son, Foser, who discovers what led Leah from a decrepit southern plantation to a bucolic Vermont homestead and back, on a path littered with the sorrows of slavery and obstructed by the unanswered challeges of race.

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