Author : Shelby Foote
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679735434
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (354 download)
Book Synopsis September, September by : Shelby Foote
Download or read book September, September written by Shelby Foote and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-04-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are planning to capitalize on the confrontation between the races by kidnapping the grandson of a wealthy black entrepreneur and pinning the crime on white supremacists. The problem is that Podjo, Rufus, and Reeny have only an amateur's understanding of what a kidnapping entails -- and a total, terrifying incomprehension of their victims. In September September a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, Shelby Foote's novel is at once a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race. September September has been adapted by Larry McMurtry for the Turner Network Television film Memphis, starring Cybill Shepherd.