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The chamber
Title:
The chamber
Author:
Harmes, Susan, 1957-
ISBN:
9780582364110
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Harlow, Essex, England : Pearson Education Ltd., 1999.
Physical Description:
v, 105 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin readers. Level 6
Series Title:
Penguin readers. Level 6
Contents:
A delicate exercise -- Kravitz and Bane -- Parchman -- On death row -- Identities -- Questions of guilt -- My dear sweet faher -- A cruel way to die -- A Parchman sunrise -- The rabbit -- Confessions -- In court -- The chamber -- A new dawn.
Abstract:
"The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you." Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi's death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a youg lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help? -- from p. 4 of cover.
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