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Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths, ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls, dressed in men's overalls, emerge from another freight car. Though they show no signs of abuse, fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. While the NAACP and the Communist Party vie to save the boys' lives and make political hay, and a wily criminal lawyer renowned for defending underworld characters battles age-old prejudices, a young journalist fights to rescue the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors with fictional characters and stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism in an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a case and a cause that roiled the nation for almost half a century. No crime in American history, let alone a crime that never occurred, resulted in as many trials, convictions, reversals, and seminal Supreme Court decisions. It destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the best-and the worst-in the men and women who fought for the cause.
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The Scottsboro case is the novel's core . . . all distilled, with great subtlety and wit, into a story worth retelling and remembering.
With a pure sense of storytelling, a deft hand at characterization and a stylish and sensitive use of language, Feldman has created another affecting portrait of the past.
Inspired and inspiring. . . . Ruby is a gem of a character, and belongs with the best of William Faulkner's, or Alice Walker's, women.
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With a pure sense of storytelling, a deft hand at characterization and a stylish and sensitive use of language, Feldman has created another affecting portrait of the past.
Inspired and inspiring. . . . Ruby is a gem of a character, and belongs with the best of William Faulkner's, or Alice Walker's, women.
Long-listed for the Orange Prize
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0393333523
- ISBN 13 9780393333527
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages376
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