Description: 6.25" x 9.5", 275 page hardcover with dustjacket titled TO DEFY THE MONSTER by Albert Arthur Allison/ iUniverse, ISBN # 0-595-78192-6, Unstated Edition, copyright 2005/ On a long-ago July night, in east Austin, a black man shot a white youth to death. The father of the dead man rescued the killer from a lynch mob. A trial ensued. The killer served part of a three-year prison sentence before gaining a gubernatorial pardon. A good enough story on its own terms: all the richer and more nutritious for the telling it receives at the hands of — and here I de-bag this particular cat — the dead man’s nephew and likewise bearer of his name: Albert Allison. If the two never knew each other they touch hands sympathetically, instructively, with love and also some irony, across seven decades of Texas history, in “To Defy the Monster.” Albert Arthur Allison has done infinitely more than reconstruct with vast care and research a bitter bit of family history concealed from sight over the years by family agreement and sense of propriety. In this, his debut as a novelist, he has given us a stirring, only slightly fictionalized portrait of a new Texas struggling to be born from the anguished, wary, and defensive form of an older one. He has told his tale with narrative gusto and a really splendid ear for the roll of English prose, as for the inflections of conversation and dialect.The book is complete and in EXCELLENT condition with some overall light wear. On the title page the author has signed, "6/4/05, To Vernon, Best Wishes, Al Allison".
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Inscribed: Yes
Type: Historical Biography
Features: Dust Jacket
Original Language: English
Personalized: Yes
Modified Item: Yes
Region: Texas
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
Modification Description: Inscribed and signed by the author.
Intended Audience: Adults
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Signed: Yes
Signed By: Albert Arthur Allison
Book Title: Black Killer, White Son : AT the Dawn of Texas Justice
Item Length: 9in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Albert Allison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Historical
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
