Sally Hemings
Barbara Chase-Riboud
- ISBN-13
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 1994
- Pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback, new
Historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud (Ballantine Books, 1994). It follows Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings across two continents and sixty years. Paperback, 360 pages.
About this book
Sally Hemings is a historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud and the winner of the Kafka Prize for best novel by an American woman. This Ballantine Books paperback was published in 1994 and runs 360 pages.
The novel re-creates the lifelong liaison between Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, and Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman he lived with for thirty-eight years. The story spans two continents and sixty years. Chase-Riboud bases it on the documents and evidence of the period while drawing on the novelist’s imagination.
Product details
Fiction & Comics › Literary & Classic Fiction
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
|---|---|
| Published | 1994 |
| Author | Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Format | Paperback, 360 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-345-38971-8 |
| ISBN-10 | 0345389719 |
| Size | 5.2 × 8 × 1 in · 0.7 lb |
| Condition | New |
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