Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

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by Stephen O'Connor

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Published: 2016

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"Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson's life ever." –Ron Charles, Washington Post"Utterly arresting." —The Wall Street JournalA debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms. Novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks are a part of a long tradition of American fiction that plumbs the moral and human costs of history in ways that nonfiction simply can't. Now Stephen O'Connor joins this company with a profoundly original exploration of the many ways that the institution of slavery warped the human soul, as seen through the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. O'Connor's protagonists are rendered via...

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