"Original...entertaining...well constructed."
From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a small town in Tennessee and White was sent there to pose as a traveling salesman. His mission was to stay as long as it took to pry the secrets out of the town. Dyja paints a complex portrait of shifting identity as White, a blonde, blue-eyed, and very light-skinned African-American, moves back and forth between white and black, working his way into both the good-old-boy network of the town and the besieged African-American community. Forced to rethink his assumptions about what really happened in the town of Sibley Springs the night of the lynching, he struggles to establish guilt and innocence in a foreign landscape, confronting as well his own questions of identity. When another lynching looms, White must decide if he will risk everything to save a black life and the white souls of Sibley Springs.
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Pre-retail Sale Copy. Rare ARC softcover with an "opened-but-never-read" look & feel. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. Nº de ref. del artículo: 22012060
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Librería: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions, St. Johnsbury, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 354 pages. A brilliant retelling of one of the most thrilling, and forgotten, episodes in the struggle for Civil Rights. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box. Nº de ref. del artículo: 3451
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Librería: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Carroll & Graf, New York, 2005. First edition hardcover book in Very Good condition; clean, square and tight, with minor shelf wear to the head and heel of the spine; slight ding to the lower fore edge corner around page 285; all else is near fine; inscribed by author in black ink pen on the title page, "For Tim (Jim? Tina?), whose magic words make it all possible! XO, Thomas Dyja". Dust jacket in Good condition, with light scuffing to the front and back panels, and shelf wear to the edges and corners. 20110137, 1 lb 6 oz, S-7. Inscribed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 000559
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