The Mercy Seat
A masterful, searing story of injustice, love and prejudice set in a small Louisiana town in 1943, by 'one of the finest writers of her generation' - Brad Watson.On the eve of his execution for allegedly raping a white girl, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones sits in a jail cell awaiting his end. Across the state, a truck driven by a convict carries the executioner's electric chair closer. On a nearby highway, Willie's father struggles to reach town in time with a gravestone for his son. In his office the prosecuting attorney examines his conscience, while at home his wife protests Willie's innocence. As the minutes tick by, an intricately layere…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4736-7250-5
- EAN: 9781473672505
- Produktnummer: 23953365
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.0 cm 290 g
- Gewicht: 290
Über den Autor
Elizabeth H. Winthrop graduated from Harvard University in 2001 with a BA in English and American Literature and Language, and in 2004 she received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the University of California at Irvine. Fireworks, her first novel, was published by Sceptre in 2006, her second, December, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for 2009 (both published by Knopf in the US) and her third, The Why of Things, was published in 2013. Born and raised in New York City, she now resides in Gloucester, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
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