Strange Fruit
by:
Lillian Smith (author)
When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.
When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780156856362 (0156856360)
ASIN: 9780156856362
Publish date: 01-07-1992
Publisher: Harvest Books
Pages no: 371
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Modern,
Southern,
Race,
Fiction
I found this book when I ordered another book by the same name through inter-library loan Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate and teach this instead. Like Harper Lee, Lillian Smith was a white southern woman who grew up observing the atrocities of the Jim Crow south. Unlike Ha...
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