Whistle - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Janice Daugharty is Artist-in-Residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia. She is the author of one story collection and five novels: Dark of the Moon, Necessary Lies, Pawpaw Patch, Earl in the Yellow Shirt, and Whistle. Klappentext Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will be charged with murdering a white woman and sent back to jail, he decides to hide the body where it won't be found. As days and then weeks pass, and the search for the missing woman continues, Roper begins to doubt himself. Did he do the right thing? Why didn't he call for help? Will anybody believe he is innocent and, most important, how can he possibly come forward now? Zusammenfassung Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will be charged with murdering a white woman and sent back to jail, he decides to hide the body where it won't be found. As days and then weeks pass, and the search for the missing woman continues, Roper begins to doubt himself. Did he do the right thing? Why didn't he call for help? Will anybody believe he is innocent and, most important, how can he possibly come forward now?

Product details

• Authors: Janice Daugharty
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.1999
• EAN: 9780060930912
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093091-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Southern