The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
Jesse Hill Ford
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, seeks out legal representation to divorce his wife, who is pregnant after having an affair with a white police officer. To prevent his affair from being dragged into a court of law, the police officer violently takes matters into his own hands.
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- ISBN-13
- 9780820315270
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1966)
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