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Trouble in July

Trouble in July

Simon, Bryant
Caldwell, Erskine

Paperback

Series: Brown Thrasher Books

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.95

ISBN10: 0820321052
ISBN13: 9780820321059
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Mar 1 1999
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.47
Language: English

Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and political expediency goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern community into the single-mindedness of a mob.

Erskine Caldwell shows the lynching of Sonny Clark through many eyes. However, Caldwell reserves some of his most powerful passages for the few who truly held Clark's life in their hands but let it go: people like Sheriff Jeff McCurtain, who did nothing to disperse the mob; Harvey Glenn, who found Clark in hiding and turned him in; and Katy Barlow, who withdrew her false charge of rape only after Clark was dead.

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