
Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas(Author)
Agate Publishing
Published on 26. August 2005
Book
Hardback
335 pages
978-1-932841-10-7 (ISBN)
Description
The critically acclaimed debut novel from pioneering actress and writer Denise Nicholas tells the story of one young woman's coming of age via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. Nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a voter registration project as part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty in this tiny town, but also deep truths about her family and herself. Drawing on Nicholas' own involvement in the movement, Freshwater Road was hailed by Newsday as "Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement."
Reviews / Votes
"Denise Nicholas brings alive the texture and emotion of the civil rights movement during the perilous adventure that was the Freedom Summer. Deeply felt, vividly penned." - Janet Fitch, author of White OleanderMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932841-10-7 (9781932841107)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Denise Nicholas is an actor who starred in hit American TV shows Room 222 and In the Heat of the Night. Freshwater Road is her first novel.