Scottsboro (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

With an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black youths are brutally arrested and, within minutes, the cry of rape goes up from two white girls. In the shocking aftermath, one sticks to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind, and an impassioned young journalist must try to save nine boys from the electric chair, one girl from a lie and herself from the clutches of the past . . . Stirring racism, sexism and the politics of a divided America into an explosive brew, Scottsboro gives voice to the victims - black and white - of this infamous case. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009, Ellen Feldman's classic charts a fight for justice during the burgeoning civil-rights movement.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Picador Classic
Release date:	2015
Authors:	Ellen Feldman
Introduction by:	Jayne Anne Phillips
Dimensions:	197 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	367
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4472-7534-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4472-7534-9
Barcode:	9781447275343

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