Linden Hills

Gloria Naylor

Ticknor & Fields, 1985 - Fiction - 304 pages

Using Linden Hills as the geographic setting Naylor constructs a tale about the interconnected lives of members of black community. Luther Nedeed is a devil of a man whose great-great-grandfather brought his light-skinned child-bride north in 1837. Luther is also the reigning mortician who literally controls his vassals from the womb to the tomb. Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets work their way down Linden Hills, to earn Christmas money. They experience first-hand the lust and pain, the hypocrisy and valor of their hell-bound neighbors. Ultimately, they are led to the moated redoubt of their satanic master, where a veritable lake of fire awaits them. ISBN 089919-357-9 : $16.95.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 20
• Section 3: 23

About the author

Gloria Naylor was born in Manhattan, New York on January 25, 1950. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Brooklyn College and a master's degree in African American studies from Yale University. She taught at several universities including George Washington University, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Princeton University, and Boston University. Her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won the American Book Award and the National Book Award for first novel in 1983. It was adapted into a two-part television movie in 1989. Her other novels include Linden Hills, Mama Day, Bailey's Café, and The Men of Brewster Place. She died of heart failure on September 28, 2016 at the age of 66.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Linden Hills
• Author: Gloria Naylor
• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, 1985
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jun 13, 2008
• ISBN: 0899193579, 9780899193571
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General