[First Edition] Soul Catcher: A Novel [VINTAGE 2007] [FIRST EDITION

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[First Edition] Soul Catcher: A Novel [VINTAGE 2007] [FIRST EDITION

Fine condition brown boards, beige spine and black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael White; Author Dedication; Epilogue; Acknowledgments and Sources. Illustrated with a Preliminary Page Map. "Soul Catcher is an important book. It has a very dramatic narrative and is as richly detailed and beautifully written as the best Civil War era novels. But while Soul Catcher reads like an adventure story, it has its own impressive weight. Slavery and its effects are clearly and effectively portrayed as the worm in the American apple, and that gives Cain's personal journey a metaphorical heft similar to Huck Finn's." - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. "Soul Catcher is a richly imagined, high-voltage epic. Incredibly, Michael White makes us admire and even root for a man who wold normally be dismissed as not just despicable, but inherently evil: a cultured yet bawdy slave catcher named Cain. Instead, as we join Cain on a historically vivid journey, we are forced to examine our own understanding of America's racial miasmas. Following Cain's treacherous trail on horseback, we are hoisted up mountains of meanness, squeezed through crevasses of cruelty, and replenished in valleys of redemption, all the while hoping for the best in him. This wonderfully researched book is teeming with incident, peopled by passionate abolitionists and canny slaves, and brings to life the very dark heart of that 'peculiar institution'. This is an essential novel for any reader interested in slavery and race." - Shirlee Haizlip, author. "This powerful narrative of a slave catcher's odyssey from South to North and back again just before the Civil War chronicles a physical and emotional journey of epic proportions.[It is] a story of tragedy and triumph, a novel the reader cannot put down." - James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "From the New York Times Notable author Michael White comes this bold, exquisitely written and profoundly moving novel of love, freedom, and a country on the brink of war. Augustus Cain faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession: the horse that has been his working companion for years. He is also a man haunted by a terrible skill - the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave fueled b y the passion and determination only a mother can feel. She bears the scars - inside and out - of a life lived in servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is her one shot at freedom, and she would rather die than return to the living hell that she has left behind. In the perilous years before the Civil War, the fates of these two remarkable people will intertwine in an extraordinary adventure - a journey of hardship and redemption that will take them from Virginia to Boston and back - and one that will take them from VIrginia to Boston and back - and one that will become an extraordinary test of character and will, mercy and compassion. It is an odyssey that will change them both forever. Soul Catcher is a dazzling tapestry of imagination and character, atmosphere and emotion. Poignant and utterly compelling, it is a story to be savored and remembered." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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