Billy
- Author Albert French
- Narrator Vaughn Johseph
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 6 hours and 46 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Racism and racial discrimination.
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What to expect
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Discover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.
The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.
'Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams', Tim O'Brien author of The Things They Carried
© Albert French 1967 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Billy is a book that will stay with me in my dreams
Tim O'Brien -
Although I only knew Billy Lee Turner for an all-too-brief 214 pages, I will mourn his death for the rest of my life
Claude Brown -
I kept trying to think of a writer who has done a better job of capturing clear, powerful and authentic language, the landscape, the people… I kept searching for comparisons and I kept coming up with masters of the art, from Aeschylus to Ernest Gaines
David Bradley -
He writes in…in the idiom of his characters, which is rhythmic, expressive, ultimately poetic, and brings William Faulkner to mind
Independent
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