Placeholder text

Go to cart

Magic City

By Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Magic City book

Magic City

0 - Default Title
Description
"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.
When Joe Samuels, a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob. Meanwhile, Mary Keane, the white, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry. Magic City evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century, Jim Crow America, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
1998-06-23
Publication Date:
1998-06-05
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0060929073
ISBN13:
9780060929077
Weight:
376 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
Preview Link:
https://book2look.com/book/9780060929077&shoplinkNumbers=none
Currently sold out