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Strange Fruit

Lillian Smith

Paperback (Harvest Books, July 15, 1992)

When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.

Strange Fruit

Lillian Smith

Mass Market Paperback (New American Library, March 1, 1948)

Vintage paperback

Strange Fruit

Lillian Smith

Hardcover (Reynal & Hitchcock, March 15, 1944)

314 page hardcover book.

Strange Fruit

Lillian Smith

Hardcover (Harcourt, Jan. 1, 1944)

When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as the day it was written.

Strange fruit,: A novel

Lillian Eugenia Smith

Hardcover (Reynal & Hitchcock, March 15, 1944)

Author's first novel which brought her notoriety for its candid language and controversial themes of a love affair between a white man a black woman as well as issues of homoeroticism and homophobia. Fueled by attempts to suppress it, and unofficial attempts to have it banned, it quickly became a bestseller. Smith is noted for her political activism decrying sexual and racial segregation and her work with the ACLU. Controversial.