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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 3857. Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South, by Richard Rubin (read 14 Feb 2004) This is a well-told account by the author, who just out of college gets a job on the newspaper in Greenville, Miss. as a sports writer and comes to know a sensational black quarterback for the football team of Greenville High. The account of the author's time in Greenville is given in full detail, and the account of the trouble the high school star gets in after high school is absorbing--including the riveting story of the resulting trial. This book had such a strong final section that some of the triviality and less than interesting parts earlier in the book are overwhelmed by the outcome. The book does not make one feel good about present-day Mississippi, even though the legal badness of the old Mississippi which could, e.g., exonerate Emmett Till's murderers, has changed. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is warmly welcomed by the townspeople and soon finds his first great scoop in Handy Campbell, a poor, black teen and gifted high school quarterback who goes on to win a spot on Mississippi State's team -- a training ground for the NFL. Six years later, Rubin, back in New York, learns that Handy is locked up in Greenwood, accused of capital murder. Returning south to cover the trial, Rubin follows the trail that took Handy from the football field to county jail. As the best and worst elements of Mississippi rise up to do battle over one man's fate, Rubin must confront his own unresolved feelings about the confederacy of silence that initially enabled him to thrive in Greenwood but ultimately forced him to leave it. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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