THE SUM OF HIS WORTH
A prize-winning journalist goes back in time to relive his life growing up in bigotry-infested Alabama in this non-fiction novel of the bloody Civil Rights Movement.
A Southern gothic thriller set at the outset of the violent 1960s in a town where Jim Crow proliferates and the savage KKK takes care of violators.
In 1958 teenager Sonny Poe struggles to survive the rough-and-tumble Alabama environment where he was born and raised. Freedom, as he discovers being white, depends on your allegiance to the segregationist status quo and a hundred year old Confederate tradition. At first heedless to the suppressive politics toward blacks, that changes once Sonny witnesses a lynching and then latches on to a well-to-do progressive dentist who will turn his life upside down and bring this coming of age story to its tragic end.
In an incendiary climate brought on by an aggressive civil rights movement, the defiant "Doctor Joe" fights to save a Negro community from decades of brutality. Seeking retaliation against the doctor, the Klan guns down an eight-year-old Negro boy at a school ceremony, which only make the doctor more determined in his quest.
Both Sonny and Doctor Joe will spill blood, be betrayed by friends and forced into exile. Yet, as conditions accelerate into fear for their very lives, the rebellious youngster becomes even more dedicated to Doctor Joe, ever knowing as does his benevolent mentor that their paths must end in tragedy.
This edgy thriller pulsates with violence, love, betrayal and humor on a narrative rushing us through the forebodingness of one of America's most pressing historical moments toward its shocking climax. The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength is in the voice of its young narrator.
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A Southern gothic thriller set at the outset of the violent 1960s in a town where Jim Crow proliferates and the savage KKK takes care of violators.
In 1958 teenager Sonny Poe struggles to survive the rough-and-tumble Alabama environment where he was born and raised. Freedom, as he discovers being white, depends on your allegiance to the segregationist status quo and a hundred year old Confederate tradition. At first heedless to the suppressive politics toward blacks, that changes once Sonny witnesses a lynching and then latches on to a well-to-do progressive dentist who will turn his life upside down and bring this coming of age story to its tragic end.
In an incendiary climate brought on by an aggressive civil rights movement, the defiant "Doctor Joe" fights to save a Negro community from decades of brutality. Seeking retaliation against the doctor, the Klan guns down an eight-year-old Negro boy at a school ceremony, which only make the doctor more determined in his quest.
Both Sonny and Doctor Joe will spill blood, be betrayed by friends and forced into exile. Yet, as conditions accelerate into fear for their very lives, the rebellious youngster becomes even more dedicated to Doctor Joe, ever knowing as does his benevolent mentor that their paths must end in tragedy.
This edgy thriller pulsates with violence, love, betrayal and humor on a narrative rushing us through the forebodingness of one of America's most pressing historical moments toward its shocking climax. The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength is in the voice of its young narrator.
THE SUM OF HIS WORTH
A prize-winning journalist goes back in time to relive his life growing up in bigotry-infested Alabama in this non-fiction novel of the bloody Civil Rights Movement.
A Southern gothic thriller set at the outset of the violent 1960s in a town where Jim Crow proliferates and the savage KKK takes care of violators.
In 1958 teenager Sonny Poe struggles to survive the rough-and-tumble Alabama environment where he was born and raised. Freedom, as he discovers being white, depends on your allegiance to the segregationist status quo and a hundred year old Confederate tradition. At first heedless to the suppressive politics toward blacks, that changes once Sonny witnesses a lynching and then latches on to a well-to-do progressive dentist who will turn his life upside down and bring this coming of age story to its tragic end.
In an incendiary climate brought on by an aggressive civil rights movement, the defiant "Doctor Joe" fights to save a Negro community from decades of brutality. Seeking retaliation against the doctor, the Klan guns down an eight-year-old Negro boy at a school ceremony, which only make the doctor more determined in his quest.
Both Sonny and Doctor Joe will spill blood, be betrayed by friends and forced into exile. Yet, as conditions accelerate into fear for their very lives, the rebellious youngster becomes even more dedicated to Doctor Joe, ever knowing as does his benevolent mentor that their paths must end in tragedy.
This edgy thriller pulsates with violence, love, betrayal and humor on a narrative rushing us through the forebodingness of one of America's most pressing historical moments toward its shocking climax. The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength is in the voice of its young narrator.
A Southern gothic thriller set at the outset of the violent 1960s in a town where Jim Crow proliferates and the savage KKK takes care of violators.
In 1958 teenager Sonny Poe struggles to survive the rough-and-tumble Alabama environment where he was born and raised. Freedom, as he discovers being white, depends on your allegiance to the segregationist status quo and a hundred year old Confederate tradition. At first heedless to the suppressive politics toward blacks, that changes once Sonny witnesses a lynching and then latches on to a well-to-do progressive dentist who will turn his life upside down and bring this coming of age story to its tragic end.
In an incendiary climate brought on by an aggressive civil rights movement, the defiant "Doctor Joe" fights to save a Negro community from decades of brutality. Seeking retaliation against the doctor, the Klan guns down an eight-year-old Negro boy at a school ceremony, which only make the doctor more determined in his quest.
Both Sonny and Doctor Joe will spill blood, be betrayed by friends and forced into exile. Yet, as conditions accelerate into fear for their very lives, the rebellious youngster becomes even more dedicated to Doctor Joe, ever knowing as does his benevolent mentor that their paths must end in tragedy.
This edgy thriller pulsates with violence, love, betrayal and humor on a narrative rushing us through the forebodingness of one of America's most pressing historical moments toward its shocking climax. The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength is in the voice of its young narrator.
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| BN ID: | 2940016339368 |
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| Publisher: | Ron Argo |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 376 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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