Summary
The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a black boy convicted of murdering a white girl in 1930s Mississippi, is a powerful story of racial injustice and a haunting evocation of life in the American South.
Discover Albert French’s haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking. The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749397715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749397713 |
| Author: | Albert French |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 1993 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams
Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams – Tim O’BrienAlthough I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life – Claude BrownI kept trying to think of a writer who has done a better job of capturing clear, powerful and authentic language, the landscape, the people… I kept searching for comparisons and I kept coming up with masters of the art, from Aeschylus to Ernest Gaines – David BradleyHe writes in…in the idiom of his characters, which is rhythmic, expressive, ultimately poetic, and brings William Faulkner to mind * Independent *
About The Author
Albert French
Albert French served four years in the Marines as an infantryman. After the service, he taught himself photography and worked as a medical photographer and staff journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 1981 he created Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, which he published until 1988. He has written several novels, including Holly, I Can’t Wait on God and Cinder.
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