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Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and, finally, in trying to escape and join her in the free North. For his attempt to flee, he is whipped to death in front of his family, and this brutal event is the pivot around which the story evolves.
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African American men, History, Fathers and sons, Slaves, Fiction, Virginia, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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The longest memory: a novel
1994, Pantheon Books
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1994, Pantheon Books
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The Longest Memory
1994, Chatto and Windus, Random House UK
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