Scottsboro : A Novel – Ellen Feldman

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Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and within seconds the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, “Scottsboro” is a novel of a shocking injustice that reverberated around the world. ‘A fine novel …Anyone who wants to appreciate the scale of the miracle that a black man has been elected president of the United States should sit down with “Scottsboro”‘ – Lionel Shriver.

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Description

  • Paperback | 368 pages
  • 130 x 197 x 25mm | 294g
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • Pan MacMillan
  • PICADOR
  • London, United Kingdom
  • English
  • 0330456148
  • 9780330456142

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