Publication

1995 - Ballatine Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

108,250 words, Guess

Page Count

433 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Alternate Titles

  • Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.

Description

A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing ... A thoughtful, intelligent work ... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush ... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement ... Campbell has a strong creative voice."

First Sentence

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Subjects

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