Large Print Material
Ruth's journey : the authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind
Record details
- ISBN: 1410476200 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410476203 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410476200 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781410476203 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781410476203 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410476200 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 569 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large Print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor -- an infant girl who falls into the hands of two French émigrés. They take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South: Jehu Glen, a free black man with whom Ruth falls madly in love; the shabbily genteel family that first hires Ruth as Mammy; Solange's daughter Ellen and the rough Irishman, Gerald O'Hara, whom Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their shocking connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett O'Hara -- the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the difficult coming of age felt by three generations of women, a portrait of Mammy emerges, at once a proud woman and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. But despite the cruelties of a world that has decreed her a slave, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time. She loves with a ferocity that would astonish those around her if they knew it. And she holds tight even to those who have been lost in the ravages of her days. |
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| Subject: | Enslaved persons Women slaves Fiction Southern States History 1775-1865 Fiction Large type books Southern States History 1775-1865 Fiction |
| Genre: | Novels. Historical fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Southbury Public Library | MCCAIG/LP (Text) | 34019132223801 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | LP MCC (Text) | 33430130924491 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
