Billy
Albert French. Penguin Books, $15 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-017908-8
This first novel starkly depicts Billy Lee Turner, a black, ten-year-old boy convicted and executed for the stabbing of a young white girl in 1930s Mississippi. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 01/30/1995
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 978-0-7927-2074-4
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