num_pages: 232
description: An extraordinary novel told partly in verse, The People from Heaven takes place in 1943, the year it was originally published, in Warrensburg, New York, where Eli Bishop, a white shopkeeper, initiates a reign of terror on the populace following his rape of America Smith, a black woman.
language: English
title: The People from Heaven
titlecomplete: The People from Heaven (Radical Novel Reconsidered)
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 17
publisher: University of Illinois Press