Beetlecreek Demby Hall Paperback MP–MPP University Press of Mississippi

Beetlecreek\nby William Demby\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William Demby\nTitle: Beetlecreek\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Fiction and Related items\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi\nPublication year: 1998\nISBN-13: 9781578061068\nISBN-10: 1578061067\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAfter several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek's black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for acceptance, something that will give meaning to their lives. Bill tries to find it through good will in the community. Johnny finds it in the Nightriders, a local gang. David Diggs, the boy's dispirited uncle, aspires to be an art.