The last hotel for women
Subtitle: a novel
By: Vicki Covington
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780684811116
Subjects: Civil rights movements; Race relations; Fiction
Description: A novel of the civil rights movement through the eyes of a white family. The setting is 1961 Birmingham, Alabama, where the Fraley family owns a hotel which used to be a brothel, run by Fraley's deceased mother. The family's liberal leanings come into conflict with their mother's old lover, Bill Connor, the commissioner of public safety, who in real life organized white resistance to the civil rights movement. By the author of Night Ride Home.
Notes: Also issued online.