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Chasing the North Star
Contributor(s): Morgan, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 1616206454     ISBN-13: 9781616206451
Publisher: Algonquin Books
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | African American - Historical
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2019297019
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:
In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back--no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide.

Hiding during the day and running through the night, Jonah must elude the men sent to capture him and the bounty hunters out to claim the reward on his head. There is one person, however, who, once on his trail, never lets him fully out of sight: Angel, herself a slave, yet with a remarkably free spirit.

In Jonah, she sees her own way to freedom, and so sets out to follow him.

Bristling with breathtaking adventure, Chasing the North Star is deftly grounded in historical fact yet always gripping and poignant as the story follows Jonah and Angel through the close calls and narrow escapes of a fearsome world. It is a celebration of the power of the human spirit to persevere in the face of great adversity. And it is Robert Morgan at his considerable best.

Contributor Bio(s): Morgan, Robert: - Robert Morgan is the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction--including the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek--and non-fiction, and is also an established poet with fourteen collections to his credit. Born in Hendersonville, NC, he teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English.