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Billy
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  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781446499610
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Billy

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EBook
2 July 2021
Audiobook
8 July 2021
Paperback
1 Dec 1993
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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.

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Discover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.

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 poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.

'Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams', Tim O'Brien author of The Things They Carried
  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781446499610
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Albert French

Albert French served four years in the Marines as an infantryman and was wounded in Vietnam. After the service, he taught himself photography and worked as a state medical photographer and photojournalist. He is based in Pittsburgh.
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