Billy (47 page)

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yet with
remarkable compassion and restraint. their
story is an unsentimental
and ultimately heart
rending
vision
of
racial injustice.
BILLY
is. quite
s
i
mply
.
one
of the most powerfully
affecting no\o
e
l
s
to come
along
in
years.

A LBE R T FR ENCH
served four years in the
M
a
ri
nes as an infantryman
.
After
the
service.
he
t
a
u
g
h
t
h
imse
l
f photography
and worked as a
med
i
ca
l
p
h
o
t
ographer and
staff photojournalist for
th
e
P
i
ttsburgh POST
-
GA
ZETTE.
In
1981.
he created
PI
TTSBURGH PREVIEW MA
GAZINE,
which he published

un
t
i
l
1988 BILLY
is his
first novel.