

Sweetsmoke
Author: David Fuller
Narrator: Ezra Knight
Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/05/2008
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: David Fuller
Narrator: Ezra Knight
Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/05/2008
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
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.
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
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
Beautifully written, heart wrenching book. I learned more about slavery than i ever wanted to know.......more