Jimmie Barnes

Jimmie Barnes

by Barry C Davis
Jimmie Barnes

Jimmie Barnes

by Barry C Davis

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Overview

JIMMIE BARNES is a novel that addresses the issue of race in America.

The story takes place in 1988 at the tail end of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. Jimmie Barnes is a Mississippi nursing home resident who claims to be well over one hundred years old and a former slave. Jimmie has spent a long lifetime pursuing the return of his father's slave reparations, his forty acres, at times reaching out directly to U.S. presidents. With death nearing, Jimmie resolves to make one more effort; with his nursing home caretaker he takes on Congress, the media, the civil rights establishment and the courts to win the return of his family's forty acres. The story has historic elements and at times is funny, poignant and violent.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781494794576
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 02/08/2014
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

I am a University of Pennsylvania engineering graduate who currently lives in suburban Philadelphia with my wife, Deb, and our two girls. I have been writing for the past 10 years. I have written screen plays, novels and short stories and I have had several short stories published in webzines and print magazines. I write the type of material that I read - urban crime, thrillers, horror, historical and humor. I am an avid cyclist and gamer. A Philly boy through and through, I live and die (mostly die) with my Philly sports teams and I have never met a cheesesteak or soft pretzel I didn't like. I write to educate, provoke and inspire. I want readers to be uncomfortable, shaken from the 'zones' we inhabit. If my writing does not accomplish that, I have failed.
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