Ebook {Epub PDF} Billy by Albert French

Albert French's harrowing debut novel of year-old Billy Lee Turner, convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Baines, Mississippi, in , is an unsentimental and ultimately heartrending vision of racial injustice. "A work of art Billy never lets up, not for one minute magnificent"New York Daily News. Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in Constructed in a series of powerfully lean vignettes, Billy is a tour de force of dramatic compression, focusing on how this outrageous event affects an entire bltadwin.ru: Albert French.  · 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 , illuminates the monstrous face Author: Albert French.

Holly. by. Albert French. · Rating details · 95 ratings · 9 reviews. Set in the final year of World War II in a small North Carolina town, Holly is the story of a young white girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Her world is transformed when she falls in love with a handsome, educated black soldier just back from the war. Billy is an American classic. The novel is set in Banes, Mississippi in the s. This novel is an accurate depiction of the South during that era, the racial injustices minorities suffered at the hands of the legal system, and the racial dynamics of the conviction and execution of a 10 year old black boy in the rural South. Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted of and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi in Billy is about the deaths of two children, one girl, one boy, the girl's death an accident, the boy's a murder perpetrated by.

Albert French served four years in the US Marines and later worked as a medical photographer and photojournalist. He is the founder of the Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, as well as the author of the novels Billy and Holly, and the memoir Patches of Fire. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Billy is the hot-tempered illegitimate child of Cinder, herself the illegitimate daughter of a black mother and a white farm boy. They live in the Patch, the dusty black section of Banes, a cotton. Although Billy by Albert French can be seen to be quite a depressing and upsetting book to read, the themes and messages that French brings to light to the reader are priceless. Summary Based in the s deep south America, Billy is a ten year old black boy who lives in the patch where all of black society live (the society is racially divided).