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Author Mayhew, Anna Jean.

Title The dry grass of August [large print] / Anna Jean Mayhew.

Imprint Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Publishing, 2011.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Large Print Fiction  LP May    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Large Print  LP F Mayhew    ---  Available
Edition Center Point large print ed.
Description 366 p. [large print] ; 23 cm.
Note "A novel"--Cover.
Includes discussion questions.
Summary Explores the explosive tensions of the South in the mid-1950s through the prism of a young girl's friendship with her black maid and the currents of violence, infidelity, and corruption that run beneath the polite surface of her family's life.
Source NBK 9/11 PPL
Subject Families -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Segregation -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Racism -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781611731248 (lg. print)
1611731240 (lg. print)

 
    
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