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."
Editions · 5
Paperback
1993 · Ballantine Books
332 pp · EN
9780345383952
Paperback
1995 · Ballatine Books
433 pp · EN
9780345401120
Paperback
1995 · Wheeler Pub.
EN
9781568952215
Paperback
1996 · Mandarin
420 pp · EN
9780749322656
Hardback
2000 · Rebound by Sagebrush
EN
9780785730385
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