Confession of Jack Straw

Winner of the University of Michigan's prestigious Hopwood Award for Major Fiction， The Confession of Jack Straw is both a political novel and literary novel of great style and humanity. Taking the form of a confession of one of the leaders of the English Peasant Revolt of 1381， the novel accompanies the peasants as they travel throughout southern England， gathering followers， opening prisons， killing lawyers and telling stories. Simone Zelitch's first novel， it marks her as a writer already of the first rank.