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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501147293
• ISBN13: 9781501147296
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"