Title The vain conversation : a novel / Anthony Grooms ; foreword by Clarence Major ; afterword by T. Geronimo Johnson.

Publication Info.

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction	FIC GROOMS, A	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	F-GROOMS	Check Shelf

Description	xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Story River Books
	Story river books.
Summary	The lynching of two couples in 1946 Georgia told by three characters who experience it: Victim, Bertrand Johnson, witness, ten-year-old Lonnie Henson and presumed killer, Noland Jacks.
Subject	Witnesses -- Fiction.
	Lynching -- Fiction.
	Racism -- Fiction.
	Redemption -- Fiction.
	Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Change (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
	United States -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Walton County (Ga.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
Added Author	Major, Clarence, writer of foreword.
	Johnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo), writer of afterword.
Other Form:	Online version: Grooms, Anthony. Vain conversation. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611178838 (DLC) 2017023040
ISBN	9781611178821 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
	1611178827 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)

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