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The invention of wings : a novel Cover Image Book Book

The invention of wings : a novel

Kidd, Sue Monk. (Author).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670024783 :
  • ISBN: 9780670024780 :
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 25 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2014].
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 1 / 5.0

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Target Audience Note:
920L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.3 19 164225.

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Subject: Women's rights Fiction
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Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Available copies

  • 80 of 82 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Scenic Regional.

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  • 1 current hold with 82 total copies.
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