On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Kaye Gibbons

Original title: On the occasion of my last afternoon

first published 1998 Bard, 1999 273 pages

Wheeler large print book series

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up more and more aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery. Bookish and sensitive, young Emma Garnet sets herself against her bumptious, self-made father, Samuel P. Tate, at an early age. In the company of her mother and ador...

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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon paperback · 2005 · Harper Perennial · 273 pages · 9780060797140
On the occasion of my last afternoon edition · 1999 · Bard · 273 pages
On the occasion of my last afternoon edition · 1998 · Wheeler Pub. · 286 pages
On the occasion of my last afternoon edition · 1998 · Putnam · 273 pages

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