The Lynchers | Ideas for Group Discussions
In its plot and themes The Lynchers is an explosive book, sure to elicit strong reactions from readers. The plan to lynch a white policeman, with its component parts of murdering and mutilating a black woman and the inevitable reprisals from white society, thrusts to the foreground issues of power, violence, and revolution. Such topics demand discussion, particularly in a society rife with unrest.
Kermit Frazier has said that Wideman's fiction "is difficult and places great demands on the reader . . . But he is an exceptional writer of keen insight who is certainly worth...
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