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After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek’s black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for acceptance, something that will give meaning to their lives. Bill tries to find it through good will in the community. Johnny finds it in the Nightriders, a local gang. David Diggs, the boy’s dispirited uncle, aspires to be an artist but has to settle for sign painting. David and Johnny’s new friendship with Bill kindles hope that their lives will get better. David’s marriage has failed; his wife’s shallow faith serves as her outlet from racial and financial oppression. David’s unhappy routine is broken by Edith Johnson’s return to Beetlecreek, but this relationship will be no better than his loveless marriage. Bill’s attempts to unify black and white children with a community picnic is a disaster. A rumor scapegoats him as a child molester, and Beetlecreek is titillated by the imagined crimes.This novel portraying race relations in a remote West Virginia town has been termed an existential classic. “It would be hard,” said The New Y

Who reads Beetlecreek (Banner Books)?

Author

William Demby; with an afterword by James C. Hall

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617030864

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14