NEWPORT RISING --Historical Novel by prize-winning author John Rolfe Gardiner
Pre-Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, was a thriving hub of the American slave trade, a virtual city-state of multiple faiths, independent traders and craftsmen, boasting a perfectly formed harbor for its tariff-flouting commercial armada. Thus a prime target for British invasion and occupation.
Cotton Palmer, journeyman printer and political essayist cuts a dangerous path between colonists who might shoot him and the British who hope to hang him, Palmer and the abolitionist lady-friend who won't be his wife are subjects of censure in the precariously-balanced town, where religious tolerance and the slave trade, freedom of conscience and bondage, side by side, sow the seeds of our American civil history.
The novel takes a closer look at 18th Century Newport where, with the colonial victory, many Tories and fence-sitters would pose as unwavering patriots.
John Rolfe Gardiner is the author of five previous novels and three story collections. He is recipient of a National Endowment grant, winner of the Lila Wallace award and has appeared in The New Yorker, American Scholar, American Short Fiction, Ontario Review, Oxford American, O Henry Prize
Stories, Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize volume, and many other periodicals and anthologies.
Genre: Science Fiction
Pre-Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, was a thriving hub of the American slave trade, a virtual city-state of multiple faiths, independent traders and craftsmen, boasting a perfectly formed harbor for its tariff-flouting commercial armada. Thus a prime target for British invasion and occupation.
Cotton Palmer, journeyman printer and political essayist cuts a dangerous path between colonists who might shoot him and the British who hope to hang him, Palmer and the abolitionist lady-friend who won't be his wife are subjects of censure in the precariously-balanced town, where religious tolerance and the slave trade, freedom of conscience and bondage, side by side, sow the seeds of our American civil history.
The novel takes a closer look at 18th Century Newport where, with the colonial victory, many Tories and fence-sitters would pose as unwavering patriots.
John Rolfe Gardiner is the author of five previous novels and three story collections. He is recipient of a National Endowment grant, winner of the Lila Wallace award and has appeared in The New Yorker, American Scholar, American Short Fiction, Ontario Review, Oxford American, O Henry Prize
Stories, Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize volume, and many other periodicals and anthologies.
Genre: Science Fiction
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