Description
Product ID: | 9781473672529 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Mercy Seat |
Authors: | Author: Elizabeth H. Winthrop |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating An unforgettable novel - a riveting, heart-wrenching story of injustice and racism in 1940s Louisiana that is as powerful and profound as it is timely. As another baking hot day dawns over Louisiana in 1943, a young black man wakes in a town jail to the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit. |
Imprint Name: | Sceptre |
Publisher Name: | Hodder & Stoughton |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-02-07 |