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Pleasantville (Jay Porter)
Attica Locke
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Description for Pleasantville (Jay Porter)
Paperback. Series: Jay Porter. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 354.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father Sam Hathorne, was the clear favourite, all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father Sam Hathorne, was the clear favourite, all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Jay Porter
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846689499
SKU
V9781846689499
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99-98
About Attica Locke
Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO and Dreamworks; she currently contributes to the hit show Empire. Locke's first novel Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her most recent ... Read more
Reviews for Pleasantville (Jay Porter)
It's a fascinatingly complex setting and Locke maps it with great skill, charting the struggles of her characters as the crime remains unsolved ... a smart legal thriller about how far people will go to gain power, and keep it.
Jeff Noon
Spectator
Genuinely unnerving ... subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history
Daily Mail ... Read more
Jeff Noon
Spectator
Genuinely unnerving ... subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history
Daily Mail ... Read more