Hanover Library CatalogueThe invention of wings : a novel / Sue Monk Kidd.
Publication details: New York : Viking, c2014. Edition: 1st edDescription: 373 p. : 24 cmISBN: 9780670024780; 0670024783Subject(s): Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction | Antislavery movements -- Fiction | Feminists -- Fiction | Slaves -- Fiction | Women's rights -- Fiction | South Carolina -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Feminist fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3611.I44 | I58 2014Summary: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined."--Publisher.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined."--Publisher.
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