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October mourning, a song for Matthew Shepard, Lesléa Newman

Label
October mourning, a song for Matthew Shepard, Lesléa Newman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fictionhistory
Main title
October mourning
Medium
compact disc
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
795128848
Responsibility statement
Lesléa Newman
Series statement
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
Sub title
a song for Matthew Shepard
Summary
On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. In a deeply personal response to that tragic day and its brutal aftermath, Lesléa Newman explores the impact of the vicious crime through fictitious monologues from various points of view
Target audience
adolescent
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Mapped to