Ebook {Epub PDF} Strange Fruit by Lillian E. Smith

 · Strange Fruit is set. Lillian Smith. in the imaginary small south Georgia town of Maxwell, modeled obviously on the town of Jasper, Florida, Smith's birthplace and home for her first seventeen years. The novel's central events, set against a week of religious revival in August, occur immediately after World War I (). Lillian E. Smith. 8 books45 followers. Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work 4/5(). This item: Strange Fruit (CANCELED) by Lillian Smith Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Killers of the Dream. by Lillian Smith Paperback. $/5(69).

Billie Holiday claimed that Lillian Smith named the book after her song about lynching of the same name. Smith never confirmed this, and said that she meant "strange fruit" to mean the way humans, black and white, are twisted and damaged by America's racist culture, rather than a literal reference to lynched bodies hanging in trees. Lillian Eugenia Smith (Decem? Septem) was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (). [PDF] Strange Fruit | by ↠ Lillian E. Smith - Strange Fruit, Strange Fruit When it was first published in this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller It captured with devastating accuracy the deep seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit sout.

This is the story of a lynching. An event that was as real as the morning paper in the s and s when the White Citizens' Council was the dominant political party in the South. Told from the perspective of white civil rights activist, Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit is as applicable today as it was when first published in Strange Fruit is set. Lillian Smith. in the imaginary small south Georgia town of Maxwell, modeled obviously on the town of Jasper, Florida, Smith's birthplace and home for her first seventeen years. The novel's central events, set against a week of religious revival in August, occur immediately after World War I (). Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith. Valuable First Edition, hardcover. Binding tight and hinges without wear. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent copy of this rare, collectible work of literature by Lillian Smith.