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The Feast of All Saints

The Feast of All Saints Mass market paperbound - 1986

by Rice, Anne

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Ballantine Books, 1986. Very Good. In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also desc ended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of t hem--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave , privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
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  • Title The Feast of All Saints
  • Author Rice, Anne
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # RWARE0000002255
  • ISBN 9780345334534 / 0345334531
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.85 x 4.19 x 1.18 in (17.40 x 10.64 x 3.00 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, City and town life - Louisiana - New Orleans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00001062
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First line

ONE MORNING in New Orleans, in that part of the Rue Ste. Anne before it crosses Conde and becomes the lower boundary of the Place d'Armes, a young boy who had been running full tilt down the middle of the street stopped suddenly, his chest heaving, and began to deliberately and obviously follow a tall woman.

From the jacket flap

In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

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About the author

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.