| The Levee Contributor(s): Rodda, Beth (Author), Sullivan, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 1492822221 ISBN-13: 9781492822226 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 374 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A riveting first novel, this jambalaya of human passion and deceit is set in the New Orleans of l953. The story of one man's attempt to change a culture rooted in generations of Southern white supremacy, it is a saga of the Old and the New South, of love and betrayal, terror and escape. Fletcher and Ursula Christian are glamorous leaders of New Orleans Society. Asked to develop a pilot program to admit Negro students, Fletcher, a department chair at prestigious Lemoigne University, accepts the challenge. He hires the wife of a new faculty member to assist him. When Fletcher's program is headlined after a press conference, his aristocratic Southern wife is outraged and secretly mobilizes powerful political and social forces to block Fletcher's attempt to integrate. Through a jasmine-heavy summer into the flame-filled fall, Fletcher and Ursula pursue conflicting goals until a series of devastating events brings them into a final confrontation, a confrontation between the future and the past, between two players at odds in a rich and deep culture. |
