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 Mc Queen New York Times bestseller I could not believe that I had never heard of this book.
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.".
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of Slave life.
He spent the next twelve Years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery.
It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.
Steve Mc Queen, director of 12 Years a Slave, from the Foreword Perhaps the best written of all the Slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slaveis a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history.
Solomon s bravery and life deserve nothing less.
I hope my film can play a part in drawing attention to this important book of courage. . . .
The book blewmy] mind: the epic range, the details, the adventure, the horror, and the humanity. . . .
It felt as important as Anne Frank s Diary, only published nearly a hundred Years before.
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 Mc Queen New York Times bestseller I could not believe that I had never heard of this book
