9 thoughts on “ Darktown ”

1. Darktown is an excellent book that works at many levels. At heart, it's a crime novel, but beyond that, it has a great deal to say about the time and place in which the story plays out. Set in Atlanta shortly after World War II, the book opens just after the city government has forced the police department to hire its first eight black officers.4/5.

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2. Darktown is a a interesting tale that pulls no punches but unfolds slowly for the most part before picking up some momentum before the finale. Thomas Mullen writes well but is sometimes a bit wordy, causing the story to drag in places/5().

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3. Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, climsongthekibbblasly.osflamesonsconlampviratolenripag.co stretched from Peachtree Street and Collins Street (now Courtland Street), past Butler Ave. (now Jesse Hill Jr. Ave.) to Jackson Street. It referred to the blocks above Auburn Avenue in what is now Downtown Atlanta and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Darktown was characterized in the s as a "hell-hole of squalor City districts and neighborhoods: Bedford Pine, .

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4. Jun 06,  · Darktown is a compelling well-crafted read, and a reminder of how far we have come as a nation from a time when race defined success and opportunity. Or have we? New York Journal of Books. This is high-quality historical crime fiction with a nimble sense of history and well-researched details, quick on its feet and vividly drawn. Brand: Simon & Schuster.

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5. Darktown: A Novel (The Darktown Series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Mullen, Thomas. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Darktown: A Novel (The Darktown Series Book 1)/5().

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6. Darktown definition, a part of a town or city inhabited largely by Black people. See more.

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7. Darktown. The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines. Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith.

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9. Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of by USA climsongthekibbblasly.osflamesonsconlampviratolenripag.co was also awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction for The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers and The climsongthekibbblasly.osflamesonsconlampviratolenripag.co works have been named to Year’s Best lists by The Chicago Tribune and USA Released on: June 06,

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