The people from heaven
By: John Sanford ; introduction by Alan Wald.
Series: The Radical novel reconsidered
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; Radicals -- Fiction.; New York (State) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxv-xxxvi).