Rent Bloodline: Five Stories

Synopsis

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 Ellisons Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.STORIES INCLUDE: A Long Day in November, The Sky Is Gray, Three Men, Bloodline, Just Like a Tree.

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