- EAN13
- 9781473672482
- Éditeur
- Sceptre
- Date de publication
- 08/05/2018
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9781473672482
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Fichier EPUB, avec DRM Adobe
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Impossible
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Impossible
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As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black
man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie
Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime
some believe he did not commit.
In a tale taut with tension, events unfold hour by hour from the perspectives
of nine people involved. They include Willie himself, who knows what really
happened, and his father, desperately trying to reach the town jail to see his
son one last time; the prosecuting lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the
death penalty against his convictions, and his wife, who believes Willie to be
innocent; the priest who has become a friend to Willie; and a mother whose
only son is fighting in the Pacific, bent on befriending her black neighbours
in defiance of her husband.
In this exceptionally powerful novel, Elizabeth Winthrop explores matters of
justice, racism and the death penalty in a fresh, subtle and profoundly
affecting way. Her kaleidoscopic narrative allows us to inhabit the lives of
her characters and see them for what they are - complex individuals, making
fateful choices we might not condone, but can understand.
man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie
Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime
some believe he did not commit.
In a tale taut with tension, events unfold hour by hour from the perspectives
of nine people involved. They include Willie himself, who knows what really
happened, and his father, desperately trying to reach the town jail to see his
son one last time; the prosecuting lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the
death penalty against his convictions, and his wife, who believes Willie to be
innocent; the priest who has become a friend to Willie; and a mother whose
only son is fighting in the Pacific, bent on befriending her black neighbours
in defiance of her husband.
In this exceptionally powerful novel, Elizabeth Winthrop explores matters of
justice, racism and the death penalty in a fresh, subtle and profoundly
affecting way. Her kaleidoscopic narrative allows us to inhabit the lives of
her characters and see them for what they are - complex individuals, making
fateful choices we might not condone, but can understand.
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