Cady's fictionalized memoir offers a close-up view of the dramatic social changes facing the U.S. in the post-World War II era by zeroing in on Louisville, Kentucky, during seven hot and deadly weeks in 1948, when relations between rednecks, blue-collar whites, blacks, and Jews were in a process of uneasy realignment. The lives of three men--Wade, an auctioneer and the son of a religious bigot; Lucky, the Jewish owner of a hockshop, who also shops auctions; and Lester, a strapping black man with a joy of life--become intertwined and inexorably altered. Lucky is the linchpin as he helps Lester, Wade, and two young boys (one white, one black) solve their problems of business and race.
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