Strange Fruit

by Lillian Smith

Overview

When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156856362
Publisher:	HMH Books
Publication date:	03/18/2011
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	380
Sales rank:	512,862
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Lillian Smith (1897 - 1966) was a novelist, essayist, and one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. Author of Killers of the Dream, The Journey, and One Hour and recipient of the Southern Authors Award in 1950, she was both celebrated and condemned for Strange Fruit, her first, and most accomplished, novel.

Editorial Reviews

“A passionat e novel about two decent people, impossibly in love …. Make no mistake about it; to read STRANGE FRUIT is an emotional experience.”- Lewis Gannett, Harold Tribune

“An important book by any standard …. One of the most important novels to come out of the South in years.” William DuBois, New York Times.

“A beautifully told love story …. One of the finest , most sensitive novels of this season.” A. C. Spectorsky, Chicago Sun.

“I can't remember when I have been more moved by a book.” Francis P. Adams

“Her book is not a promise but an achievement.” Malcolm Cowley, New Republic.

“Everyone should read this book. Everyone who does will read it again, and tell everyone else to read it. It is an absorbing novel, of high literary merit, terrific and tender.” Boston Globe.

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