Praying for Sheetrock : a Work of Nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene

Greene, Melissa Fay

ISBN 10: 0201550482 / ISBN 13: 9780201550481

Published by Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1991

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 335 pages; Description: x, 335 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Poppell, Thomas Hardwick. Political corruption--Georgia--McIntosh County--History--20th century. McIntosh County (Ga. ) --Social conditions. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Praying for Sheetrock : a Work of Nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene
• Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201550482
• ISBN 13: 9780201550481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner

About the Author

Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. She is also the author of Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster and the forthcoming There Is No Me Without You (Bloomsbury Press). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.