Scottsboro
15 December 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys.
Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being...
Details
15 December 2014368 pages
9781447275350Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'A fine novel . . . Anyone who wants to appreciate the scale of the miracle that a black man has been elected president of the United States should sit down with ScottsboroLionel Shriver
Taut, haunting . . . a suspenseful page-turnerDaily Telegraph
A keen sense of drama . . . What emerges is a raw sense of alienation and collisionPublishers' Weekly
An astute history . . . clear-sighted . . . There were real innocents: African American young men who lost years of their lives, their health and hope. It is for them, and the bitter lessons they taught everyone who touched the case, that Feldman's book has been written and should be readIndependent
