The Mercy Seat Elizabeth H Winthrop Sceptre Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

As Another Baking Hot Day Dawns Over Louisiana In 1943 A Young Black Man Wakes Town Jail To The Final Hours Of His Life: At Midnight Eighteen-Year-Old Willie Jones Will Be Executed By Electric Chair For Raping White Girl - Crime Some Believe He Did Not Commit Tale Taut With Mounting Tension Unfolds Hour From Nine Points View: Himself Knowing What Really Happened And Grappling It Means Die Father Desperately Trying Reach Home Tombstone Son Before It\ S Too Late See Him One Last Time Lawyer Haunted Being Forced Seek Death Penalty Against Convictions Wife Who Believes Innocent Their 12-Year-Old Determined Get Close Possible Action Regardless Dangers Priest Assigned Prisoner Entrusted Driving Executioner Travelling Place Execution Mother Whose Only Is Fighting Far East Bent On Befriending Her Neighbours This Exceptionally Powerful Novel Elizabeth Winthrop Explores Matters Justice Racism Fresh Subtle Profoundly Affecting Way Kaleidoscopic Narrative Allows Us Inhabit Lives Characters Them They Are Complex Individuals Making Fateful Choices We Might Condone But Can Understand Σελίδες: 272 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0207 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm