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. STORIES INCLUDE: ...
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Norton
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249 pagine
ISBN
0393007987
Lingua
English
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A colori, 249 pagine
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Fiction, Social life and customs, African Americans, Plantation life, Short stories
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