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Your blues ain't like mine

Author: Bebe Moore Campbell
Publisher: New York : Putnam, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-2006.
Your blues ain't like mine.
New York : Putnam, c1992
(OCoLC)645882227
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bebe Moore Campbell
ISBN: 0399137467 9780399137464
OCLC Number: 25049211
Description: 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Bebe Moore Campbell.

Abstract:

A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement....Campbell has a strong creative voice."

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