The Vain Conversation

by Anthony Grooms

Book Overview

"An incisive, gripping, and empathetic novel." -- Kirkus Reviews starred review]

An engrossing novel based on the true story of the 1946 lynching of two Black couples in Georgia.

Witness to a lynching in 1946, Lonnie is compelled to understand the brutal event and investigate his own culpability. Set in Georgia and drawn from real events, Anthony Grooms imagines his story from the perspectives of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611178827
• ISBN13: 9781611178821
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"