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Cargando... Carolina Skeletons (1989)por David Stout
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gripping is a word used on the cover of the book to describe the story. I would not have used that word. It started off very slow for me and at times did not seem like it was going any where. The newspaper man did not seem organized in the way he went about his search. If it had been me, I would had a plan of I am going to do this and then this and so on. The last hundred pages when the story finally seemed to be coming together were better than the first part which was kind of draggy. The author did seem to have several of the details to actual crime included in the story. In 1944, George Stinney, 14, was falsely accused of the murder of two young white girls in a mill town in South Carolina. He was sent to the electric chair, the youngest person ever executed in the US. David Stout has written a riveting fictionalized account of this travesty. In his book, a relative of the African American boy (here called Linus Bragg) returns to the town of Alcolu in 1988 to clear Linus' name, at the behest of his mother . James Willop, a journalist from Newark, finds that things are very different yet very unchanged as he investigates the crime. The author does an excellent job of resurrecting the past by getting inside the heads of the victims, accused, and law enforcement in 1944 as well as those still living in the poor Southern town in 1988. How things change as they remain basically the same! This is a remarkable reimagination of both eras and attitudes. No reader can fail to be moved by the culmination of Willop's work and by the courage of those who seek the painful truth. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Edgar Award winner: Based on true events, a chilling tale of murder and injustice in the Jim Crow South As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow the two bicycling white girls. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Maybe it's the way Cindy Lou speaks to him, or how Sue Ellen sits on her bike. Whatever the reason, he follows the girls into the woods. It's the worst mistake he ever makes. When he comes into the clearing, both girls are dead and young Linus is the natural suspect. Forty years later, a nephew of Linus's returns to South Carolina, curious about this dark moment in his family's past. To find the fourth person who visited the clearing that day means reopening a sinister chapter of the small town's history, which certain evil men had thought closed forever. Carolina Skeletons is based on the 1944 case of George Stinney Jr., who, at the age of fourteen, became the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. After a hastily scheduled hearing only a few hours long, the jury quickly charged him with a double murder. He was put to death three months later. A haunting journey into America's shameful past, Carolina Skeletons deftly explores how history's skeletons rarely stay hidden forever. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It's a good read, but it is difficult at times because of the murders of the children (and yes, the girls were the only ones murdered) and the language. I'm not going to say more than that because I don't want to spoil it for anyone. However, if you want to read a story that moves at a quick pace, this Edgar-award winner might just be for you. ( )