Sweet Hell Inside

<p>From National Book Award winner Edward Ball comes <em>The Sweet Hell Inside </em> the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and prospered despite racial barriers. Enhanced by recollections from the family's archivist eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock -- whose bloodline the author shares.<em> The Sweet Hell Inside</em> features a celebrated portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; and an orphanage founder who created the famous Jenkins Orphanage Band a definitive force in the development of ragtime and jazz.</p><p>With evocative and engrossing storytelling Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured vain imperfect rich and black -- a family of eccentrics who defied social convention and flourished.</p>