Billy

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New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. 2nd Printing. Octavo quarter bound in ivory with tan boards, gilt titles; dust jacket; 214 pp; 22 cm Fine in near fine dust jacket; pages crisp and clean; binding tight; deckle edge to textblock; dust jacket shows minimal edgewear, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780670850136"Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in 1937. Constructed in a series of powerfully lean vignettes, Billy is a tour de force of dramatic compression, focusing on how this outrageous event affects an entire community" --Publisher. Show more