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- 2007281779 abstract "Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White--a lightskinned African-American man who can pass for white--is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a small town in Tennessee and White was sent there to pose as a traveling salesman. His mission was to stay as long as it took to pry the secrets out of the town. Dyja paints a complex portrait of shifting identity as White, a blonde, blue-eyed, and very light-skinned African-American, moves back and forth between white and black, working his way into both the good-old-boy network of the town and the besieged African-American community. Forced to rethink his assumptions about what really happened in the town of Sibley Springs the night of the lynching, he struggles to establish guilt and innocence in a foreign landscape, confronting as well his own questions of identity. When another lynching looms, White must decide if he will risk everything to save a black life and the white souls of Sibley Springs.".
- 2007281779 contributor B10828471.
- 2007281779 created "2005.".
- 2007281779 date "2005".
- 2007281779 date "2005.".
- 2007281779 dateCopyrighted "2005.".
- 2007281779 description "Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White--a lightskinned African-American man who can pass for white--is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a small town in Tennessee and White was sent there to pose as a traveling salesman. His mission was to stay as long as it took to pry the secrets out of the town. Dyja paints a complex portrait of shifting identity as White, a blonde, blue-eyed, and very light-skinned African-American, moves back and forth between white and black, working his way into both the good-old-boy network of the town and the besieged African-American community. Forced to rethink his assumptions about what really happened in the town of Sibley Springs the night of the lynching, he struggles to establish guilt and innocence in a foreign landscape, confronting as well his own questions of identity. When another lynching looms, White must decide if he will risk everything to save a black life and the white souls of Sibley Springs.".
- 2007281779 extent "xiii, 354 p. ;".
- 2007281779 identifier "0786715057".
- 2007281779 identifier 2007281779-d.html.
- 2007281779 issued "2005".
- 2007281779 issued "2005.".
- 2007281779 language "eng".
- 2007281779 publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West,".
- 2007281779 spatial "Tennessee Sibley Springs".
- 2007281779 spatial "Tennessee".
- 2007281779 subject "813/.54 22".
- 2007281779 subject "African Americans Tennessee Fiction.".
- 2007281779 subject "Lynching Tennessee Sibley Springs Fiction.".
- 2007281779 subject "Murder Investigation Tennessee Fiction.".
- 2007281779 subject "PS3554.Y48 M66 2005".
- 2007281779 subject "White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955 Fiction.".
- 2007281779 title "The moon in our hands / Thomas Dyja.".
- 2007281779 type "text".