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A mixed-race young woman passes for white in New York, where she has come after journalism school to work for a magazine. Put off by her live-in boyfriend's casual racism, she leaves him and moves to a Brooklyn sublet--and into the orbit of a disturbing woman named Greta, who is also of mixed race, and who becomes obsessed with the heroine, spying on her and trying to interfere in her life, until her madness culminates in a final climactic scene.
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It's harvest time at the Chandler family farm in Arkansas, and there are two groups of workers on hand to help pick the burgeoning cotton crop. There are the Spruills, a large family from the Ozark mountains; and there is also a group of migrant workers from Mexico. When beautiful young Tally Spruill becomes romantically involved with Cowboy, a dashing Mexican, tensions begin to build. The flames are fanned by Hank Spruill, an adolescent boy who is perfectly capable of beating a man to death with his bare hands. The story is told from the point of view of 7-year-old Luke Chandler, and is based on Grisham's own recollections of his boyhood. More than just the story of mounting tension between the Spruills and the Mexican migrants, it is also a meditation on childhood in a bygone rural America.
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This second novel by Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his good friend, underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, is a suspenseful exploration of prejudice in the 1920s. Boyd Calvin, a WWI veteran still recovering from shell shock, is wrongly accused of murdering his estranged wife and her lover. In jail awaiting trial, he becomes friends with George, an African-American falsely accused of rape, and the two are forced to become fugitives after they barely escape a lynch mob. But Calvin is determined to clear his name; will he succeed, despite the evidence stacked against him?
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