ISBN: 0817310037

In her fourth novel Covington threads the turbulent racial unrest of Civil Rights-era Birmingham into the already complicated fabric of one white family's life. On Mother's Day, 1961, a b… More...

In her fourth novel Covington threads the turbulent racial unrest of Civil Rights-era Birmingham into the already complicated fabric of one white family's life. On Mother's Day, 1961, a busload of freedom riders arrived in Birmingham, Alabama, from "up North." A group of angry white men, including members of the Ku Klux Klan, armed with pipes and clubs, greeted them. Life in this most segregated of southern cities would never be the same. It is to this pivotal moment that novelist Vicki Covington returns. Birmingham crackles with tension--at the foundry where Pete, Dinah Fraley's husband, works; on the baseball field where white and black company teams uneasily take turns; and most of all in Dinah's hotel, where Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor holds court just as he did when Dinah's mother ran the place as a bordello. When Dinah takes in a freedom rider injured in the Mother's Day melee, the conflicts within and beyond her well-ordered world reach a crisis point. Firmly grounded in Alabama's physical, social, and cultural landscape, The Last Hotel for Women revisits a painful moment in the South's past and allows Covington to redeem its collective history with a story of grace and hope. contemporary,domestic life,family saga,fiction,genre fiction,historical,historical fiction,literature and fiction,women's fiction Historical Fiction, University of Alabama Press<

1999, ISBN: 9780817310035

UNIV OF ALABAMA PR, Taschenbuch, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 1999-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.86 kg, Historische Romane, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, B… More...

UNIV OF ALABAMA PR, Taschenbuch, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 1999-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.86 kg, Historische Romane, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Familiensaga, UNIV OF ALABAMA PR, 1999<

ISBN: 9780817310035

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