About this title: Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in ...
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Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 314 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780151011230ISBN:0151011230
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition. Stated 1st Edition, 1st Printing Nice clean copy! May have price sticker on cover and minor shelfwear. Overall a very good book! read more
Description: Very Good. Harcourt, TPB, 2006, 1st PB printing. Clean, reasonably tight, faint crease on cover but little wear otherwise, no markings or highlighting. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780156030458ISBN:0156030454
Description: Good. 124-Z-Add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2006-10-02
ISBN-13:9780156030458ISBN:0156030454
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
"I would give this very odd book 3 1/2 stars. It was such a weird read, the main character is a "half-wit" who goes from being black to white to black again and from male to female. It has some great humor in it. I am not sure I have words to describe this book, but overall a pretty good read."
"This book was definitely not what I expected. I went into it a little leery because of what was printed on the jacket: "A Brit has not just written a brilliant book about the south, he has managed to pull off the magic and mystery of southern literature" (a review by kaye gibbons). Frankly, it sounded pretentious. I can't say that it brilliantly portrayed the south, but it was definitely suprising. A white black boy becomes a white adolescent becomes a white woman becomes a black woman... and it did speak to gender and racial issues. I guess the overlaying message was that we aren't who we are born, but instead who we become (as I believe Lee says sometime in the book). Some of it was superficial, and some was meaningful, and most was downright weird, but I enjoyed reading it anyway. But I'm not sure if I came away from it with any profound Truths.
Would recommend, but wouldn't necessarily read again."
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