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Genre/Form: | Fiction Bildungsroman |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bebe Moore Campbell |
ISBN: | 0345401123 9780345401120 |
OCLC Number: | 122402306 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. |
Description: | 433 pages ; 18 cm |
Responsibility: | Bebe Moore Campbell. |
Abstract:
A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing ... A thoughtful, intelligent work ... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush ... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement ... Campbell has a strong creative voice."
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