Song Yet Sung
$24.63
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2025
Summary
‘A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web’ Washington Post
‘Gripping’ New York Times
In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks.
Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399632553 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399632558 |
| Author: | James McBride |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice that recalls both William Faulkner’s sagas of blighted generations and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. Explosively dramatic * Kirkus (starred review) *McBride keeps the suspense high as he raises troubling questions about slavery’s legacy, the price of freedom and what it means to be human * People *Powerful … A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web * Washington Post Book World *Gripping, affecting, and beautifully paced, Song Yet Sung illuminates, in the most dramatic fashion, a deeply troubled, vastly complicated moment in American history * O, The Oprah Magazine *Engrossing * Seattle Times *
About The Author
James McBride
James McBride is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the million-copy-bestselling memoir The Colour of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ‘Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.
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