Praying for Sheetrock : a Work of Nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene

Greene, Melissa Fay

ISBN 10: 0201550482 / ISBN 13: 9780201550481

Published by Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1991

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 335 pages; Description: x, 335 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Poppell, Thomas Hardwick. Political corruption--Georgia--McIntosh County--History--20th century. McIntosh County (Ga. ) --Social conditions. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Praying for Sheetrock : a Work of Nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene
• Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201550482
• ISBN 13: 9780201550481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner

About the Author

Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker , the New York Times , the Washington Post , The Atlantic Monthly , the Chicago Tribune , and Newsweek . She is also the author of Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster and the forthcoming There Is No Me Without You (Bloomsbury Press). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.