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  • Published: 1 August 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749396633
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

Holly



Holly is the story of a poor, white girl in 1944 North Carolina, whose lonely world is transformed by a handsome, educated black soldier from the war - and of the town's savage response to their romance. An indictment, a love story, and evocation of a time and place, it confirms Albert French as a dark and passionate chronicler of American mores and culture

  • Published: 1 August 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749396633
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Albert French

Albert French served four years in the Marines as an infantryman and was wounded in Vietnam. After the service, he taught himself photography and worked as a state medical photographer and photojournalist. He is based in Pittsburgh.

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Praise for Holly

[Billy] may be the best first novel by a black author since Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye in 1969.

Time