- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (Jun 11 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679744673
- ISBN-13: 978-0679744672
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.8 x 20.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,255,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman. This is the first novel we have had from the author of Black Ice, the stunning memoir of a black student's experience at a New England prep school in the 1970s.
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From Publishers Weekly
Set during the antebellum period, Carey's first novel tells of a woman who escapes from slavery only to be haunted by the memory of the baby she had to leave behind.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
PC Pulp Fiction,
By rampageous_cuss (Under Billy Penn's Hat) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Price of a Child: A Novel (Paperback)
This revisionist novel is best described as "Beloved"-lite. It is yet another politically-correct attempt to diminish the importance of Whites in the abolitionist movement and present Blacks as the only real authors of their liberation. The book describes White abolitionists as childish old maids whose sentiments are fueled by the desire to draw cheap Black labor up from the South. These silly and ignorant people are educated, with difficulty, by stern and courageous Blacks who observe White pretensions with a knowing sense of humor.The book begins with a lurid depiction of the heroine, the proud and beautiful Mercer, in stereotypically helpless sexual bondage to her male slavemaster. All Whites in the novel are stereotypes or ciphers. After using prurience as a hook to get the novel underway the author later criticizes White abolitionists for objectifying her heroine! Likewise, after asserting that Whites are meanly stereotyping Blacks, the author uses stereotypes to ridicule 19th century White religious women. After presenting Whites as consistently venal, ignorant, and prejudiced the author has her heroine address the question of why there are bad Blacks: It is all the fault of slavery, Mercer solemnly explains. This comes after the author has ridiculed humorous depictions of Black dialect in contemporary popular culture and characterized it as rascist, but then, apparently realizing that her uneducated Southern heroine speaks idiomatically perfect English, Mercer begins prefacing her orotund speeches with a few y'alls. I can't help but feel amazed that this biased nonsense has been favorably reviewed, let alone selected as 'Philadelphia's One Book.' Nevertheless from a deeply cynical perspective it may indeed be unintentionally representative of the city's self-idea. The book is worth examining as an example of unconsciously racist discourse intended to benefit its presenters by working an ethnic political bloc with tales of their victimization and unappreciated superiority. Perhaps that IS the price of a child! It's a price that has cost Philadelphia dearly.
4.0 out of 5 stars
I don't like Slave Narratives, but....,
By Crystal Mae Smith (Blackwood, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Price of a Child: A Novel (Paperback)
this one was pretty good. I always support fellow Quaker's in their writing endeavors hence the purchase. Lorene gives this character depth and a sense of humor if you can believe that...This is a quick read but worth it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring as Watching Paint Dry,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Price of a Child: A Novel (Paperback)
Unfortunately I found this book quite boring and untrue to the claim that it focused on pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Less than half of the book was actually set in the city. When the protagonist went on her speech tour near the end of the story, I honestly could not keep my eyes open to read the words. All of the historical backround seemed forced. Looking back, I don't even know where the climax of the book is (if there is one.)The only redeeming part of the story is the ending, which takes way to much time and energy to reach. Overall, this book was an exreme disappointment.
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