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Cane River (Oprah's Book Club #42)

Overall Rating Rating 5  |  2 reviews
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    This saga of four generations of strong African-American women begins in 1834 on a Louisiana plantation and ends a hundred years...more

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    This saga of four generations of strong African-American women begins in 1834 on a Louisiana plantation and ends a hundred years later. The author was a successful executive who quit her job to research the history of her own family--which she has incorporated into this stirring tale.
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  • Cane River

    This book is difinitely a page turner, from the day I picked it up I could not put it down. It keeps your interest all the way to the end. Excellent, and well written. The setting for this book is based in in the state of LA. The book is hard cover and its one you will want to keep on your shelf. Love it , love it , love it. its well written and one of the best books I have read in a long time. I also found out it is part of the Oprah book club.

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    This is a terrific read! It has fast become a favorite, and I ordered additional copies for friends!

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  • Like the river of its title, Tademy's saga of strong-willed black women flows from one generation to the next, from slavery to freedom. Elisabeth is a slave on a Creole plantation, as is her daughter, Suzette. The family, based on Tademy's own ancestors, wins freedom after the Civil War, but Suzette's daughter, Philomene, must struggle to keep her family together and to achieve financial independence. The melodious, expressive voices of narrators Belafonte and Payton are a pleasure to listen to, while Moore's tougher, grittier tone conveys the hardships faced by the family. However, Belafonte and Payton sometimes ignore vocal directions provided by the novel. For example," Payton reads one passage in a whisper even though the text says ""in her excitement"," Philomene's voice rose... louder and louder."" The complex", multigenerational tale suffers somewhat in abridgment: at times the narrative too abruptly jumps ahead by decades and some emotional situations are given short shrift, as when Philomene discovers that her daughter Bette, whom she was told died as a baby nearly 20 years earlier, is actually alive and living nearby. Still, the audio succeeds in evoking the struggles of black women to provide better lives for their children despite all odds. Simultaneous release with the Warner hardcover (Forecasts, Mar. 12). (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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