Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
| AUTHOR | Greene, Melissa Fay |
| PUBLISHER | Grand Central Publishing (08/29/2006) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, Thurnell Alston, to challenge the sheriff and his courthouse gang--and to change the way of life in this community forever. "An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality" (Coretta Scott King)
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780306815171
ISBN-10:
0306815176
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
368
Carton Quantity:
22
Product Dimensions:
5.40 x 1.00 x 8.40 inches
Weight:
0.80 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product,
Maps,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
History | United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
History | Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
History | Discrimination
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level:
0
Point Value:
0
Guided Reading Level:
Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal:
305
Library of Congress Control Number:
2009286051
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Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, Thurnell Alston, to challenge the sheriff and his courthouse gang--and to change the way of life in this community forever. "An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality" (Coretta Scott King)
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Author:
Greene, Melissa Fay
Melissa Fay Greene is the author of Praying for Sheetrock; The Temple Bombing; Last Man Out; There Is No Me Without You: One Woman s Odyssey to Rescue her Country s Children; and No Biking in the House Without A Helmet. Her honors include two National Book Award nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, the Salon Book Award, Elle Magazine s Readers Prize, the Georgia Author Award, (and another Georgia Author Award bestowed by a different organization evidently unaware that there was already a Georgia Author Award). Fay Greene is also a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship and theDog Writers of America Award.Praying For Sheetrock was named one of the top 100 works of American journalism of the 20th century and appears on Entertainment Weekly s list of The New Classics The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years. Fay Greene is also a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship and theDog Writers of America Award.
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