The Pecan Man: Library Edition

Selleck, Cassie Dandridge

ISBN 10: 148302301X ISBN 13: 9781483023014

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2014

Synopsis

"The Pecan Man" is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category.In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief s son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as "To Kill a Mockingbird" meets "The Help.""

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 148302301X
• ISBN 13: 9781483023014
• Binding: Audio CD