A life for a life
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ernest Hill
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780684822785
Subjects: African American families; African Americans; Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: A 15-year-old boy in Louisiana, D'Ray Reid, robs a store so he can ransom his brother from a crack dealer and kills a youth in the process. While in jail he is visited by the father of the youth and the visitor becomes his surrogate father.
Notes: Also issued online.