Bloodline"In these five stories, Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, suffering, and courage, as Ralph Ellison's Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Gaines introduces us to this world through the eyes of guileless children and wizened jailbirds, black tenants and white planters. He shows his characters eking out a living and making love, breaking apart and coming together. And on every page he captures the soul of black community whose circumstances make even the slightest assertion of self-respect an act of majestic—and sometimes suicidal—heroism"--Amazon. |
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Page 172
... Little Boy and Joby . " How I'm supposed to know , " Little Boy said . “ They don't tell nobody nothing . " Dee - Dee started laughing , and we left her back there laughing . I knocked on the library door , and when ' Malia told us to ...
... Little Boy and Joby . " How I'm supposed to know , " Little Boy said . “ They don't tell nobody nothing . " Dee - Dee started laughing , and we left her back there laughing . I knocked on the library door , and when ' Malia told us to ...
Page 173
... Little Boy said . " I can't ' mem- ber everything . " " You ain't told me nothing , " Joby said . He turned toward Frank , and I could see he wanted to cry . “ Mr. Frank , I swear by my mama Little Boy ain't told me nothing . " Frank ...
... Little Boy said . " I can't ' mem- ber everything . " " You ain't told me nothing , " Joby said . He turned toward Frank , and I could see he wanted to cry . “ Mr. Frank , I swear by my mama Little Boy ain't told me nothing . " Frank ...
Page 182
... Little Boy started shaking his head and giggling . " Mr. Frank , you too much , " he said . Frank looked at ' Malia sitting in the other chair . He was probably wondering if he ought to accuse her of helping me and Copper . ' Malia just ...
... Little Boy started shaking his head and giggling . " Mr. Frank , you too much , " he said . Frank looked at ' Malia sitting in the other chair . He was probably wondering if he ought to accuse her of helping me and Copper . ' Malia just ...
Contents
A Long Day in November | 3 |
The Sky Is Gray | 83 |
Three Men | 121 |
Copyright | |
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