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Author Randall, A. (Alice)

Title The wind done gone / Alice Randall
Published Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001

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 MELB  810.6 R1881 A6/W  1 HOLD
Description v, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell's famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy - beautiful and brown - gets to tell her story."
"Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away."--BOOK JACKET
Subject African American women -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100654
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
LC no. 00046544
ISBN 061810450X
0618219064 paperback