Praying For Sheetrock: A Work Of Nonfiction
A work of nonfiction based on reporting from a small Georgia county, tracing civil rights struggle and a local power battle. The book is vivid with the friction among community change, law, politics, and everyday life.
Work Information
By following one small county, the book brings civil rights history to life.
Melissa Fay Greene tells the story of civil rights and local power in McIntosh County. The book is strong as narrative reportage and rich in character detail.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Published
- 1991-09-03
- Pages
- 352 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780201550481
- ISBN-10
- 0201550482
- Price
- 9937 JPY
A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner
Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker , the New York Times , the Washington Post , The Atlantic Monthly , the Chicago Tribune , and Newsweek . She is also the author of Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster and the forthcoming There Is No Me Without You (Bloomsbury Press). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reviews
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A really good read
I'm a photographer and when we travel it's on back roads. This book is about one of those areas we found and return often. It happened in southeast Georgina in the county from top to bottom runs highway 17 which was the highway from every where to Florida. That road was like a hucksters paradise and con men and women from all the wrong places picked and fleeced tourist . The story is about the black and whites who lived there and the Sherif that ran the county. It's just a good story very well done by a great author that gives a real in site into the lives of real people. COST: 1c, 3.99 shipping and worth a fortune. Almost all of the people who live in small towns every where are not like we think they are just because we think they are. Travel, through a place and time that is no longer there. I-95 has changed the East Coast, North and South for better and worse, but I love it all for one reason or another. God bless you all, or "y'all" or "youse guys" I know thats not how it's spelled,but to my ears thats how it sounds, one country,many good people. .
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Melissa Faye Green is a spectacular wrighter.
Praying for sheet rock is one of the iconic novels of today that nobody knows. I’ve been to McIntosh County, Darien, and all the towns that are listed in this book in Southeast Georgia. It is like taking a step back in time from 2024.
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EYE OPENING STORY
THIS IS A GREAT HISTORICAL BOOK ABOUT LIFE IN THE DEEP SOUTH. IT IS AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE TO READ HOW LIFE HAS CHANGED AND REPRESENTATION HAS GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT MORE INCLUSIVE FOR THIS POOR RURAL COUNTY IN GEORGIA.
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Sadly did not live up to my expecations
I was looking for a book abt how the over-arching story of the civil rights movement played out in a locality in the South and expected a lot from this book. But it ended up not being especially informative.
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worth every page
Outstanding historical superbly written This book is hard to put down Darien is beautiful we have been there many times You cannot have a future without a past Great book