Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.
- ISBN10 0544812123
- ISBN13 9780544812123
- Publish Date 6 September 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 November 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Edition 50th anniversary ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 528
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.com.au/9780544812123