The Color Of Lightning

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• How the West Was

  The hero of Paulette Jiles’s third novel is a historical figure, a freed slave whose journey into the Texas Panhandle to rescue his wife and children — abducted not by slave traders but by Indians — derives from oral histories supported by a few trac ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

• The Color of Lightning By Paulette Jiles

  Britt Johnson, a newly freed slave at the end of the Civil War, moves with his family to the wild country of Texas, where he finds more dangers than the racism and violence of the Kentucky he left behind in Paulette Jiles’ gripping novel The Color of ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  Blends Civil War history and westward expansion

  Paulette Jiles embellishes on the historical Britt Johnson, a freed slave who moved to Texas with his family toward the end of the Civil War. Would recommend to afficionados of historical fiction.

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• ISBN-10: 0061690449
• ISBN-13: 9780061690440

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