A Kind and Savage Place - Richard Helms

Descriere A Kind and Savage Place - Richard Helms

\n \nIt's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, and lifelong friends, are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man's death. \n \n \n \nOne of the friends harbors a tragic secret that could have prevented the crime. Divulging it would ruin his life, so he stays quiet, fully aware he will carry a stain of guilt for the rest of his life. \n \n \n \nThe three buddies go their separate ways for almost a decade, before another tragedy brings them back to Prosperity in 1968. Now in their thirties, it is a time of civil and racial unrest in America. \n \n \n \nThey discover the man who committed murder back in '54 is now the mayor, and rules the town with an autocratic iron fist. He's backed by his own private force of sheriff's deputies and forcibly intimidates and silences any malcontents. \n \n \n \nWorse, now he's set his sights on Congress. \n \n \n \nA Kind and Savage Place spans half a century from 1942 to 1989 and examines the dramatic racial and societal turmoil of that period through the microcosmic lens of a flyspeck North Carolina agricultural community.\n

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9781685120771

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