The choiring of the trees

Corrupt politicians of Stay More, Arkansas, frame Nail Chism for rape and sentence him to death in 1914, while Viridis Monday, an artist trained in Paris, draws trial sketches and decides that Chism is not guilty.

First sentence: At sundown, when they led him to the chair, Nail Chism began to understand the meaning of the name of his hometown, Stay More.

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Harvest Books

Editions

3

Pages

402

ISBN

9780156170994

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