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The Levee
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9781492822226
ISBN13:
9781492822226
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$17.52
The Levee
$17.52
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.
| Author: Beth Rodda |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Oct 12, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 374 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1492822221 |
| ISBN-13: 9781492822226 |
