Ebook {Epub PDF} The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles

A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post-Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history/5(K). The Color of Lightning is a related novel, set in the same time, dealing with former slaves who have been freed and (carefully) create a new life. Although free, many a person treat them as Less-than, call them names, expect servility/5(K). The Color of Lightning is a great companion novel for News of the World. If you liked News of the World, in this novel, Paulette Jiles has written another story which illuminates that period of time which followed the Civil War as settlers moved west away from the Old South and into territories formerly inhabited by Native Americans/5.

The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ $ Save 12%. Buy The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. "Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted. This is glorious work." — Washington Post "A gripping, deeply relevant book." — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the World, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas. The Color of Lightning is a related novel, set in the same time, dealing with former slaves who have been freed and (carefully) create a new life. Although free, many a person treat them as Less-than, call them names, expect servility. Paulette Jiles, an acclaimed poet as well as a novelist, lodges “The Color of Lightning” deep within this genre, packing her prose with inventive metaphor, luxuriant detail and flights of.