Pleasantville
Locke, Attica2016
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It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been relected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville - the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hathorne, a former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father Sam Hathorne, was the clear favourite, all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the race - Sandy Wolcott, a defence attorny riding high on the success of a high-profile murder trial. And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel's nephew is charged with her murder.
Main title:
Pleasantville / Attica Locke.
Author:
Locke, Attica, author
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.
Collation:
420 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9781846689499 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6C
LC class:
PS3612.O247
Local class:
FAFC
Language:
English
BRN:
1368491
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