Strange Fruit

by Lillian Smith

Hardcover, 1944

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Publication

Reynal & Hitchcock Publishers (1944), Edition: Twenty-second Printing, Hardcover

Description

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.

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Physical description

9.13 inches
Page: 0.9821 seconds