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Billy
Gill Paul
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Description for Billy
Paperback. The events recorded in this novel occur during the 1930s in a small Mississippi town, but the range of characters, emotions and social forces, and the inexorable march to doom of a ten-year-old black boy and the society that dooms him, catapult the story beyond a specific time and location. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
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Discover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.
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. 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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of pages
224
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749397715
SKU
9780749397715
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Gill Paul
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.
Reviews for Billy
Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams
Tim O'Brien Although I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life
Claude Brown I kept trying to think of a writer who has done a better job of capturing clear, powerful and ... Read more
Tim O'Brien Although I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life
Claude Brown I kept trying to think of a writer who has done a better job of capturing clear, powerful and ... Read more