Sweetsmoke, David Fuller
Sweetsmoke, David Fuller
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Sweetsmoke

Author: David Fuller

Narrator: Ezra Knight

Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/05/2008


Synopsis

Screenwriter David Fuller spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, in the process discovering that members of his family fought on both sides of the Civil War. Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freedwoman who once saved Cassius from Hoke's wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything to avenge her death.

About David Fuller

After twenty-five years toiling in the Hollywood studio system, David Fuller has abandoned the movies and now lives quietly as a recovering screenwriter. Of the more than fifty screenplays Fuller has written, many of them have been made into movies or TV pilots. His first novel, Sweetsmoke, was nominated for an Edgar Award. Fuller lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife of almost thirty years and his excellent and amusing sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony on November 02, 2009

I have to admit that this book's basic premise was strong enough to carry me through the story's few rough patches. Set in the midst of the Civil War (1862), the story introduces us to Cassius, a slave carpenter. He enjoys a special status among the slaves at the titular Virginia tobacco plantation......more

Goodreads review by CAW on March 17, 2011

This is a dry-earth book, filled with very fully-realised characters and the sort of incidental details I love in a narrative, the kind Mark Twain would deplore: a drifting scrap of cobweb, the precise way the wind shakes the trees, suchlike things. The protagonist is an extremely emotionally repress......more

Goodreads review by Ann on September 26, 2019

Beautifully written, heart wrenching book. I learned more about slavery than i ever wanted to know.......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on September 29, 2023

Good background history. Needs more story to hang it on.......more