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Author Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer.

Title Picking Cotton : our memoir of injustice and redemption / Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  362.883 Tho    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary A memoir that discusses Jennifer Thompson's rape at knifepoint in her apartment, subsequent escape, and identification of Ronald Cotton as her assailant before a DNA test eleven years later proved Ronald's innocence, which led to an unlikely friendship between the innocent man and the victim.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-291).
Source NBK 4/9 PPL
Genre/Form Memoir.
Subject Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer.
Rape victims -- North Carolina -- Burlington -- Biography.
Rape -- North Carolina -- Burlington -- Case studies.
Cotton, Ronald.
Forgiveness -- Case studies.
Added Author Cotton, Ronald.
Torneo, Erin.
ISBN 9780312376536
0312376537

 
    
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