Billy
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SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover 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 harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy’s story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.’Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams’, Tim O’Brien author of The Things They Carried
Additional information
Weight | 0.159 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 224 |
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Year Published | 1994-1-31 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0749397713 |
About The Author | 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. |
Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams |
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Other text | Although I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life |
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