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12 Years A Slave - (Movie Tie-In) (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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12 Years A Slave - (Movie Tie-In) (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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Loot Price R501
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The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy
Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael
Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen New
York Times bestseller "I could not believe that I had never heard
of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank's Diary, only
published nearly a hundred years before. . . . The book blew [my]
mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and
the humanity. . . . I hope my film can play a part in drawing
attention to this important book of courage. Solomon's bravery and
life deserve nothing less." -Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a
Slave, from the Foreword Perhaps the best written of all the slave
narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of
the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon
Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington,
D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and
beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his
life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his
rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed
account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today
is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the
very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as
educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual
perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
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