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When it was first published in 1944, this novel with a curious title - taken from a Billie Holiday song about a lynching - sparked immediate controversy: It horrified some critics, prompted booksellers in Boston and Detroit to ban its sale, caused the U.S. postal service to seize copies, and tempted the public enough to make it the years's No. 1 fiction best-seller.
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Lillian Smith (1897 - 1966) was a novelist, essayist, and one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. Author of Killers of the Dream, The Journey, and One Hour and recipient of the Southern Authors Award in 1950, she was both celebrated and condemned for Strange Fruit, her first, and most accomplished, novel.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1944
- ISBN 10 0151857695
- ISBN 13 9780151857692
- BindingHardcover
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Strange Fruit
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New: York: Reynal and Hitchcock
(1944)
ISBN 10: 0151857695
ISBN 13: 9780151857692
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New: York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1944, rare first edition. Boards (navy, slightly bumped at corners, some surface wear), spine, hinges, and pages are secure and in good condition. No DJ. Digital pictures available upon request. Seller Inventory # ABE-210963887
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