Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306815171)

Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man, Thurnell Alston, to challenge the sheriff and his courthouse gang--and to change the way of life in this community forever. "An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality" (Coretta Scott King)

Author: Melissa Fay Greene
ISBN-10: 0306815176
ISBN-13: 9780306815171
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 107