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Scottsboro: A Novel (Paperback)

by Ellen Feldman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; 2 edition (21 April 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330456148
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330456142
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,157 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Moving, disturbing and enormously powerful, this brilliant book offers no cosy resolutions or perfect happy endings.'

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'...compelling fictional account of one of history's greatest miscarriages of justice, a case that kick-started America's civil rights movement'
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3.0 out of 5 stars Would work better as a film, 27 April 2009
Scottsboro is a novel about the shocking injustice recieved by nine black youths, falsely accused of raping two white girls, on a train in Alabama, in 1931. All the details of the alleged crime, and the trial are included. This book reads like a non-fictional account, but many of the characters are fictional. This meant that the book failed to live in either camp. I'm not a big fan of non-fiction books, as I like to feel the emotion of the characters, but this book can't really work as a reference aid, as it is unclear exactly which bits are factually accurate, and which are added to improve the flow of the book.

Unfortunately the book is too factual to appeal to fans of historical fiction. We never see beneath the surface of any of the people; events rush along without dwelling on how the characters involved are feeling. I think that this story would work really well on film; the court room drama would work much better on screen than it does on paper.

As an aside, I thought that the cover for this book was terrible. My copy has a picture of a blurred train on the front, and it looks really cheap, and poorly displayed. I would never have picked this up in a bookshop, as it just looks as though no thought has gone into it, therefore implying that the book's contents are not worth the effort. It needs some embossing, foiling or some other embellishment, and the font on the back is too large and clunky - am I just being a bit fussy?!

I had never heard of this case before, so I am really glad that I now know all the details, but I'd only recommend this book to people who are directly interested in this trial. Everyone else should wait until the film is made and released!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, intelligent and brutally honest, 10 Jun 2009
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Though this isn't usually my sort of thing, I picked it up based on it having been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. And what an impulse buy! Scottsboro has characters so utterly real - complete with fundamental flaws and complicated motivations - who inhabit the shocking true story at the centre as if they were already there. Feldman's apparent adherance to the real events that form much of the plot does this story justice. Too often 'true fiction' takes too many liberties with the 'true' part, but Feldman manages to both portray the reality of that Alabama courtroom and mold the tale enough that it is still interesting.

Alice and Ruby are both wonderful characters, and for the main part the supporting cast do very well. The one exception is abel, who I found a little dull and not very fleshed-out. This does make part of the final chapters weaker, but the finale itself is perfect (though that's all I'm saying about that).

All in all, a very very good book.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars superb, 2 Jun 2009
By Judith Cummings (UK) - See all my reviews
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Quite simply one of the best things I have read in years. It chronicles one of the most shameful episodes in the recent history of the USA. Scorsboro is a fictionalised version of true events which took place in the American Deep South in the 30s.
As I read the book I began to feel more and more strongly that it should be included in the English Curriculum of all schools. A very powerful and disturbing account of real people and real events, told in a simple, clear and unmelodramatic way, which probably increases the horror of the injustice faced as a matter of daily life for so many people from the South.
An absolute tour de force which should be read alongside To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men and other classics of the period. It makes Maya Angelou's chronicles of her experiences (and I love Angelou), seem easy by comparison.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fiction Meets Fact
Scottsboro is a novel based on the true story of a trail in the town of the same name in Alabama in 1931. Read more
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