![]() ![]() 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. An exciting book about the failures of idealism in America in the last decade and a half. A fascinating account of the black communitys gradual political awakening. An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality (Coretta Scott King) Review Quotes writes with the lyricism of a poet and the skill of a novelist. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, Thurnell Alston, to challenge the sheriff and his courthouse gang-and to change the way of life in this community forever. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. Book Synopsis Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia-and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. About the Book Originally published: Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, c1991. ![]()
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