Billy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Albert French, French Albert
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.1994
• EAN: 9780749397715
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9771-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Mississippi, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Social issues, Relating to African American people, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern and contemporary fiction, Racism and racial discrimination, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century