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008			080527s2008 ncu 000 1 eng
010			_a2007044471
020			_a9781565125698
050	0	0	_aPS3610.O6556 _bM83 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC JOR
100	1		_aJordan, Hillary, 1963-
245	1	0	_aMudbound : _ba novel _c/ by Hillary Jordan
250			_a1st ed
260			_aChapel Hill, N.C. _b: Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill _c, 2008.
300			_a328 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a "Winner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction"--Jacket.
520			_a"When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Laura does not share Henry's love of rural life, and she struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, all the while under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud." "As the McAllans are being tested in every way, two celebrated soldiers of World War II return home to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not: charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, comes home from fighting the Nazis with the shine of a war hero, only to face far more personal - and dangerous - battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen. It is the unlikely friendship of these two brothers-in-arms, and the passions they arouse in others, that drive this debut novel. Mudbound reveals how everyone becomes a player in a tragedy on the grandest scale, even as they strive for love and honor."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aFarm life _x--Mississippi _z--Fiction
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x-Veterans _x-Fiction
650			_aAfrican American veterans _v--Fiction
650		0	_aRace relations _x--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
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