The People from Heaven
by John B. Sanford
232 pages· 1943· ISBN 9780252064913
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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.
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