Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

by John Edgar Wideman

Book Overview

A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expos " (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501147285
• ISBN13: 9781501147289
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"