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LEADER: 01624cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2008046309
003 DLC
005 20090721114109.0
008 081028s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2008046309
020 $a9781594488573
020 $a1594488576
035 $a(OCoLC)233548552
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn233548552
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dZS3$dC#P$dJAO$dBWX$dDLC
043 $anwjm---
050 00 $aPR9265.9.J358$bB66 2009
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aJames, Marlon,$d1970-
245 14 $aThe book of night women /$cMarlon James.
260 $aNew York :$bRiverhead Books,$c2009.
300 $a417 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aLilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.
650 0 $aSlaves$vFiction.
651 0 $aJamaica$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008046309-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008046309-b.html