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September, September
In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are planning to capitalize on the confrontation between the races by kidnapping the grandson of a wealthy black entrepreneur and ...more
Paperback, 316 pages
Published
April 9th 1991
by Vintage
(first published 1978)
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I listened to this book on tape. It is long, 12.25 hours.This story is set in 1957 Memphis. The historical backdrop is of the integration of Little Rock Central High 90 miles away in Arkansas. A group of 3 small time white hoods decides to kidnap the child of a well-off black couple. They figure the couple will not call the police because they are black and the kidnappers white. They hold the kid for a week in a house by the banks of the Mississippi River.The story is told through a narrator and...more
Shelby Foote's smashing return to the novel form after 24 years (a little thing like the 3,000-page "The Civil War: A Narrative" filling the gap) still looks to the past. Three white people kidnap a black child of wealthy stock during the September 1957 integration in Little Rock, Ark. "September September" was my first Foote fiction; I was impressed. Really strong writing here. Alas, it was to be his last.
low lifes kidnap a black girl in 1950s Arkansas. Wonderful setting and characters
How I love revisiting history through the eyes and experiences of Foote's characters. His stories are important to me because they are genuinely, bona fide southern, peopled with folk who are real and true, whether good or bad.
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Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote wa...more
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