Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: Cardinal C272
Year: 1957
Print: 1
Cover Price: $.35
Condition: Very Good. Normal wear.
Genre: Fiction
SKU: 40116112E

In the mid-1950’s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a pace where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitable intertwined. When Lacey’s fair-haires boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private convictions about the equality of blacks before the law, and the combined threat and promise he represents to the understood order of things in Lacey affects almost every member of the community. In the end, Harper succeeds in pointing the way for individuals, both black and white, to find a more harmonious coexistence, but at a sacrifice all must come to regret.