Scottsboro

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  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2009)
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ISBN: 9780330456142
Authors: Ellen Feldman
Publisher: Picador USA
Date of Publication: 2009-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Race, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 711 readers)

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A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, 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. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.
 

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.