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Rent Cane River (Oprah's Book Club)
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Format: Paperback, Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Published: Apr 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 529
Synopsis
This saga of four generations of strong African-American women begins in 1834 on a Louisiana plantation and ends a hundred years later. The author was a successful executive who quit her job to research the history of her own family--which she has incorporated into this stirring tale.
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