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THE BALLAD OF LEE COTTON by Christopher Wilson Little, Brown, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 307, ISBN 0316730262 12.99 (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848
Lee Cotton is born to a black mother in a little Delta town in the 1950s, but has white skin. He rows up amid violent confrontation between white supremacists and the civil rights movement. Aged 16, he is beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan. At this stage in the book, 50 pages in, it is natural for the...
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