Wings of Morning

By William Cobb

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575871777
• ISBN13: 9781575871776
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Crane Hill Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

GREAT FICTION

READERS OF ENTERTAINING FICTION---YOU WILL QUICKLY BECOME ADDICTED TO THIS DRAMA ARTFULLY PROTRAYED BY WILLIAM COBB. THROUGH THE SCENIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SOUTH AND VIVID CHARACTERIZATIONS, HE ENTHRALLS THE READER. A MASTER STORY TELLER!

wings of change

William Cobb's last book "Spring of Souls" was a big comic romp that made me laugh many times. This time he gets serious, dead serious: this novel is tumultuous & daring, involving race relations in the early sixties in a fictional Southern town. Historic fact and magical realism and all sorts of marvelous symbols are put together in a brethtaking way. I found myself responding deeply to the treatment of blacks by the ruling white family on a place still called a plantation; I'd thought, hey, this is supposed to be the twentieth century, not the nineteenth--and then I thought, oh, that's the point. Slavery continued...and then came marches, courage, civil rights, all with horrors and cruelty and violence. It's all here. Ghosts, crimes, racism, even destroyed ecosystems, all the results of the sin of slavery. It's a wonderful novel. Martin Luther King turns up as a character near the end. There are dozens of memorable characters--in a masterfully told story. My only complaint is that sometimes the point of view shifted to a scene or group of people I couldn't make sense of, but that's a small complaint.