Reparations - Couverture rigide

Kimber, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002005646 ISBN 13 : 9780002005647

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

They were boyhood best friends. One black, one white. But they’dgrown up and apart. Ray, the son of Africville’s last schoolmaster, had hisbrief, shining moment in the ’70s as a black activist leader and is now ajaded lawyer specializing in real estate deals and plea bargains. Ward, the sonof a blackballed fisherman, who had his own turn in the ’70s spotlight as theprovince’s most promising young politician, has become a judge who worriesmore about the state of his prostate than the justice of the state. Now, morethan 25 years after they fell in love with the same woman, the two men must faceeach other again, this time in a courtroom. The explosive trial will force bothof them to finally confront the demons of their own pasts and reveal secretsthey’ve kept hidden, even from themselves.

Stephen Kimber, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, haswritten a page-turning legal thriller, a sophisticated tale fuelled by power,sex, the politics of race and an impassioned quest for justice.

Biographie de l'auteur :

STEPHEN KIMBER is a bestselling, award-winning writer, editor, broadcaster and professor in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax. He is the author of five non-fiction titles, all set in Halifax, including Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at Warand Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash. Visit his website at www.stephenkimber.com.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0002005646
• ISBN 13: 9780002005647
• Reliure: Relié