Dawson's Fall

by Roxana Robinson

Book Overview

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning

In Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374135215
• ISBN13: 9780374135218
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"