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020 $a9780670024780 (hardback)
020 $a0670024783 (hardback)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn849719161
035 $a(OCoLC)849719161$z(OCoLC)859603523
035 $a(NNC)10655458
037 $bPenguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136$nSAN 282-5074
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050 00 $aPS3611.I44$bI58 2014
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC000000$aFIC019000$aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKidd, Sue Monk.
245 14 $aThe invention of wings /$cSue Monk Kidd.
264 1 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2014.
300 $a373 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd's sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women's rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful's cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved." -- Publisher's description.
600 10 $aGrimké, Sarah Moore,$d1792-1873$vFiction.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$vFiction.
650 0 $aFeminists$zSouth Carolina$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen's rights$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 0 $aBiographical fiction.
655 0 $aHistorical fiction.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3611.I44$iI58 2014