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Chargement... Trouble in July (1940)par Erskine Caldwell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a fine book. The subject matter - a lynching - means it's not always an easy read, but it is so well put together, and so atmospheric, that you are drawn into the narrative from the beginning. The humid air of a southern summer seems to seep right off the pages. A key to this book - and one of the other reviewers touched on this - is that it isn't about the few who do evil, it's about the many who don't stop it. It's a powerful message, but Caldwell has a light enough touch not to labour the point. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It is about a lynching and I will say no more so as not to spoil it for anybody who wishes to read it. I love most of his books, and all the ones that deal with the South, along with Place called Estherville and this one is incredibly moving. I highly recommend this book. A ( )