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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

by Bebe Moore Campbell

ISBN: 0345383958
ISBN-13: 9780345383952
Format: Paperback

Summary

In the pre-integration 1950s, a 15-year-old boy from Chicago goes to rural Mississippi for the summer and becomes involved in a fatal misunderstanding: the aftermath of that event is explored.

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"A thoughtful, intelligent work... Campbell has a strong creative voice."

"Often painful but always absorbing..."

"In clean, elegant prose, Campbell offers a powerful reminder that racism is a crime for which everyone pays."

-- Time

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1993
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds

Publisher's Notes

Campbell's affecting memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad, was hailed as "one of the more overdue books about and for the black community" by The Washington Post. Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.

Other Editions

Hardcover - Putnam Pub Group (1992) - from $1.00
Paperback Reprint - Ballantine Books (1993) - from $1.00

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