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DUST

February 17th, 2009

DUST is an historical novel based on the 1947 lynching of Willie Earle (a young black man) by a mob of taxi drivers in Greenville, South Carolina. It treats largely of one of Willie’s redneck assassins, Caleb Bart (fictional, but authentic in the character of such persons).
Caleb is a former World War II hero with [...]