Easter Lilly
a novel of the South today
1st ed.
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Word Count
80,500 words, Guess
Page Count
322 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL684584M
- ISBN-100688106285
- OCLC Control Number37545505
- OCLC Control Numbereasterlillynovel00wick
- Library of Congress Control Number97031400
and 1 more
- Goodreads2060754
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3573.I25 E2 1998
Description
Set in today's South, Easter Lilly is the story of a stunningly beautiful black woman who is accused of murdering a white man she claims was about to rape her; a New York civil rights attorney who's come running to save her from a certain death penalty; a gentlemanly county prosecutor who happens to be the brother of the slain man; and a cast of characters whose language and body rhythms make the sexual heat and humidity of the South palpable. These characters tell the story themselves, Rashomon-like, rendering the death - and the events that precede and follow it - through their own eyes, and with their own voices, which are as different and as provocative as their individual views of the world. In a final courtroom scene, rivaled in intensity only by the killing itself, Wicker dares to leave us wondering: What, really, do we know about prejudice? And what is this thing we call justice?
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
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