{"product_id":"all-souls-rising-isbn-9781400076536","title":"All Souls' Rising","description":"\"A serious historical novel that reads like a dream.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003cbr\u003ePEN\/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis first installment of the epic Haitian trilogy brings   to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave   uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept   over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to   overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti   from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic.  From the center of this   horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave   and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless   fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and   equality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through   a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free   and enslaved.  Pulsing with brilliant detail, \u003ci\u003eAll Soul’s Rising\u003c\/i\u003e provides a visceral   sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.“As powerful as a hurricane. . . . \u003cb\u003eAll Souls’ Rising\u003c\/b\u003e is really about us, our times, our prejudices, our race wars.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A serious historical novel that reads like a dream.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rich and ambitious. . . . One of the most sophisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom.” –\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful and intelligent novel. . . . Historical fiction in the monumental manner.”  –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beautifully composed, eloquent, grand nightmare of a book. With it, Bell becomes as remarkable a historical novelist as we have in this country.” –Harold Bloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A work of breathtaking stylistic expertise on a large scale, easily [Bell’s] most daring and accomplished novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A passionately engaged opus. \u003cb\u003eAll Souls’ Rising\u003c\/b\u003e reflects both a sustained imaginative audacity and great intellectual resourcefulness.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable. . . . \u003cb\u003eAll Souls’ Rising\u003c\/b\u003e deserves to be read for its fictional representation of history and for its compelling characterizations. But its political importance should not be underestimated. . . . Bell’s excursion into revolutionary Haiti is the attempt of an undaunted novelist to stand face to face, as it were, with the prehistory of our own racial divisiveness. . . . An important book.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’ve known Madison Smartt Bell’s work for quite a while, and this is the best thing he’s ever done–and probably the best thing he’ll ever do, which is my definition of a masterpiece. \u003cb\u003eAll Souls’ Rising\u003c\/b\u003e is simply breathtaking.” —Gloria Naylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The scope of this ambitious narrative is heroic. . . . Bell demonstrates that each race destroys itself in doing evil to the other.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A major work, a triumph of both storytelling and inspired historical analysis.” —Robert Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vivid, visceral tale. . . . [Bell] has taken the events of eighteenth-century colonial Haiti and made them a prism for the most divisive issues confronting us today.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bell’s luminous, intelligent novel . . . is magnificent. It restores my faith in the energy of American fiction.” —Barbara Probst SolomonMadison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including \u003cb\u003eThe Stone   That the Builder Refused\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eMaster of the Crossroads\u003c\/b\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSave Me, Joe Louis\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eDr. Sleep\u003c\/b\u003e;   \u003cb\u003eSoldier's Joy\u003c\/b\u003e; and \u003cb\u003eTen Indians\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and   teaches at Goucher College.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eA Novel","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303921733861,"sku":"NP9781400076536","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400076536.jpg?v=1767721288","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/all-souls-rising-isbn-9781400076536","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}