Theory of war

Joan Brady

earliest edition we have, 1993 Abacus, 1994 224 pages

The narrator of this searing novel is the granddaughter of a slave. Her grandfather, Jonathan Carrick, was a white man. He was sold just after the Civil War to a struggling Kansas tobacco farmer - a common enough practice in those days when black slaves were no longer legal and the children of destitute soldiers were being marketed. You could pick up a white kid cheap, and Jonathan, only four years old, went for fift...

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Theory of war edition · 1994 · Fawcett Columbine · 257 pages
Theory of war edition · 1994 · Abacus · 224 pages
Theory of war edition · 1993 · Deutsch · 208 pages
Theory of war edition · 1993 · A.A. Knopf · 257 pages

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