Confederacy of Silence
A True Tale of the New Old South
$45.13
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2003
Summary
In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself.
When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780671036676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067103667X |
| Author: | Richard Rubin |
| Publisher: | Atria Books |
| Imprint: | Atria Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
The Washington PostA page-turner….Rubin seems to have gone to school on the fine writers in whom Mississippi abounds, [including] Eudora Welty and Willie Morris.
The New Yorker [Rubin’s] willingness to look honestly at the complexity of race in today’s South is invigorating, and the book’s conclusion…is shattering.
The Washington Post A page-turner….Rubin seems to have gone to school on the fine writers in whom Mississippi abounds, [including] Eudora Welty and Willie Morris.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [Rubin] brings Greenwood to life as a real place full of real people….Confederacy of Silence is a moving, even haunting account of how the “New South” isn’t as new as we’d like to think.
About The Author
Richard Rubin
Richard Rubin is a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine. He is author to The Last of the Doughboys, Back Over There, and Confederacy of Silence. He lives in New York.
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