Billy

Billy

by Albert French (Author)

Synopsis

The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and povery of the region in the time of the Depression. Albert French's haunting first novel is a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 31 Jan 1994

ISBN 10: 0749397713
ISBN 13: 9780749397715
Book Overview: The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a black boy convicted of murdering a white girl in 1930s Mississippi, is a powerful story of racial injustice and a haunting evocation of life in the American South.

Media Reviews
Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams -- Tim O'Brien
Although I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life -- Claude Brown
I kept trying to think of a writer who has done a better job of capturing clear, powerful and authentic language, the landscape, the people... I kept searching for comparisons and I kept coming up with masters of the art, from Aeschylus to Ernest Gaines -- David Bradley
He writes in...in the idiom of his characters, which is rhythmic, expressive, ultimately poetic, and brings William Faulkner to mind * Independent *
Author Bio
Albert French served four years in the Marines as an infantryman. After the service, he taught himself photography and worked as a medical photographer and staff journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 1981 he created Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, which he published until 1988. He has written several novels, including Holly, I Can't Wait on God and Cinder.