Leaving Tuscaloosa
Imagine Alabama, the sultry summer of 1962--the year before Bull Connor turned his fire hoses on civil rights protesters in Birmingham and the Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church. Two young men, one white, one black, stumble into their destinies as the world erupts beneath their feet.
Richeboux Branscomb’s journey begins with a stupid mistake one night in a rattle-trap Ford on a dusty road. Acee Waites’ begins with a missing brother and a ruthless sheriff’s search party. Propelled along separate tracks through thirty-six hours of racial turmoil, these estranged boyhood friends encounter tenderness and cruelty, erotic passion and murderous rage. Then amid the spreading fires of racial violence, their paths converge in a terrible, riveting climax.
This stunning debut novel from Southern-based writer Walter Bennett, "Leaving Tuscaloosa" (FUZE Publishing), weaves in elegant prose the life-threads of two men segregated by race but alike in their familiarity with aspiration blunted by loss. Publication of their balanced, deeply moral story will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.
"Leaving Tuscaloosa" was a finalist for the 2010 Bellwether Prize, a nation-wide competition founded and administered by Barbara Kingsolver for unpublished novels treating issues of social change.
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Richeboux Branscomb’s journey begins with a stupid mistake one night in a rattle-trap Ford on a dusty road. Acee Waites’ begins with a missing brother and a ruthless sheriff’s search party. Propelled along separate tracks through thirty-six hours of racial turmoil, these estranged boyhood friends encounter tenderness and cruelty, erotic passion and murderous rage. Then amid the spreading fires of racial violence, their paths converge in a terrible, riveting climax.
This stunning debut novel from Southern-based writer Walter Bennett, "Leaving Tuscaloosa" (FUZE Publishing), weaves in elegant prose the life-threads of two men segregated by race but alike in their familiarity with aspiration blunted by loss. Publication of their balanced, deeply moral story will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.
"Leaving Tuscaloosa" was a finalist for the 2010 Bellwether Prize, a nation-wide competition founded and administered by Barbara Kingsolver for unpublished novels treating issues of social change.
Leaving Tuscaloosa
Imagine Alabama, the sultry summer of 1962--the year before Bull Connor turned his fire hoses on civil rights protesters in Birmingham and the Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church. Two young men, one white, one black, stumble into their destinies as the world erupts beneath their feet.
Richeboux Branscomb’s journey begins with a stupid mistake one night in a rattle-trap Ford on a dusty road. Acee Waites’ begins with a missing brother and a ruthless sheriff’s search party. Propelled along separate tracks through thirty-six hours of racial turmoil, these estranged boyhood friends encounter tenderness and cruelty, erotic passion and murderous rage. Then amid the spreading fires of racial violence, their paths converge in a terrible, riveting climax.
This stunning debut novel from Southern-based writer Walter Bennett, "Leaving Tuscaloosa" (FUZE Publishing), weaves in elegant prose the life-threads of two men segregated by race but alike in their familiarity with aspiration blunted by loss. Publication of their balanced, deeply moral story will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.
"Leaving Tuscaloosa" was a finalist for the 2010 Bellwether Prize, a nation-wide competition founded and administered by Barbara Kingsolver for unpublished novels treating issues of social change.
Richeboux Branscomb’s journey begins with a stupid mistake one night in a rattle-trap Ford on a dusty road. Acee Waites’ begins with a missing brother and a ruthless sheriff’s search party. Propelled along separate tracks through thirty-six hours of racial turmoil, these estranged boyhood friends encounter tenderness and cruelty, erotic passion and murderous rage. Then amid the spreading fires of racial violence, their paths converge in a terrible, riveting climax.
This stunning debut novel from Southern-based writer Walter Bennett, "Leaving Tuscaloosa" (FUZE Publishing), weaves in elegant prose the life-threads of two men segregated by race but alike in their familiarity with aspiration blunted by loss. Publication of their balanced, deeply moral story will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.
"Leaving Tuscaloosa" was a finalist for the 2010 Bellwether Prize, a nation-wide competition founded and administered by Barbara Kingsolver for unpublished novels treating issues of social change.
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| BN ID: | 2940015611205 |
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| Publisher: | Fuze Publishing, LLC |
| Publication date: | 09/01/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 5 MB |
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