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    Praying for Sheetrock A Work of Nonfiction

    Melissa Fay Greene
    368 pages
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    Title

    Praying for Sheetrock A Work of Nonfiction

    Author(s)

    Melissa Fay Greene

    Publisher(s)

    Hachette Books

    Other Details

    ISBN-10

    0306815176

    ISBN-13

    9780306815171

    Publication Date

    August 29, 2006

    Binding

    Paperback

    Pages

    368

    Dimensions

    Height: 1.2 Inches, Length: 8.5 Inches, Weight: 0.8 Pounds, Width: 5.7 Inches

    Weight

    0.80 kg

    Language

    en

    Average Rating

    0.0 / 5

    Edition

    2nd printing

    Created At

    December 11, 2025

    Updated At

    December 11, 2025

    Synopsis

    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)

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