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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Year
- 1969
- ISBN-13
- 9780820315270
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- RacismInfidelity and divorceViolence and injustice
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1966)
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