An edition of All God's children (1996)

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An edition of All God's children (1996)

All God's children

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The time is the 1890s. The place is small-town Kansas, where Pearl Eddy, a young widow, is struggling to raise her four sons on a failing farm. Pearl may be the soul of goodness, but the odds against her are bad indeed. Her beloved late husband has left behind crushing debts. An illness has stripped her of sight, and her Quaker faith makes her an alien in a community where the narrow-minded rule.

Prophet is a thirty-five-year-old black man - an ex-prize fighter turned hobo and thief - who becomes a target of hate in the lily-white town, and whose latest robbery sends him on the run for his life. A man who willingly lies, cheats, and steals to survive, he is the last person in the world whom Pearl should trust, much less protect from the posse tracking him down, yet she does both.

And when a forlorn family of Japanese immigrants gone astray seeks shelter and work with her, she cannot find it in her heart and faith to turn them away. Now that Pearl Eddy incites the wrath of a mob for protecting a black man and an immigrant family, the town she has made her home turns against her. Thus the stage is set for a true grit story of challenge, courage, and sheer stubborn belief in doing the right thing.

Publish Date
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Pages
327

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Cover of: All God's children
All God's children
1998, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: All God's children
All God's children
1997, Dutton
in English
Cover of: All God's children
All God's children
1996, Michael Joseph
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3555.I36 A79 1997, PS3555.I36A79 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1010151M
Internet Archive
allgodschildren0000eids
ISBN 10
0525942351
LCCN
96050216
OCLC/WorldCat
35970385
Library Thing
392868
Goodreads
3330488

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