Praying for Sheetrock - A Work of Nonfiction

Greene, Melissa Fay

ISBN 10: 0449907538 / ISBN 13: 9780449907535

Published by Fawcett Columbine (Ballantine Books), U.S.A., 1991

About this Item

The beautiful and compelling story of a small Southern town's awakening to civil rights and the courageous black man who led the call.

Seller Inventory # 044994

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Praying for Sheetrock - A Work of Nonfiction
• Publisher: Fawcett Columbine (Ballantine Books), U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449907538
• ISBN 13: 9780449907535
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair - Some Age Marks

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Synopsis

"A a monumental social history...Through a combinaton of oral history and interpretive narrative, Greene has created a work of great drama, a chorus of voices that is both disturbing and inspiring."
THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
Somehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man with a passion for justice to take him on and win, changing life in McIntosh County forever. PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK is about that one man, his victory and his utlimate fall from grace.

Review

"A fascinating account of the black community's gradual political awakening."

"[Greene] writes with the lyricism of a poet and the skill of a novelist.... A rare reading experience."

"An exciting book about the failures of idealism in America in the last decade and a half.... Poetic and picaresque."

"In a cautionary tale as wonderfully knotty as a plank of Georgia pine, Greene forcefully marks the danger in confusing ideals with those who preach them and thereby extends the import of her story far beyond the boundaries of little McIntosh County."