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Bloodline

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.95

Oct 28, 1997 | ISBN 9780679781653

Ebook $7.99

Oct 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780307830364

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    About Bloodline

    In these five stories, Ernest 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 aand 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.  Bloodline is a miracle of storytelling.

    STORIES INCLUDE:

    A Long Day in November
    The Sky Is Gray
    Three Men
    Bloodline
    Just Like a Tree

    About Bloodline

    In these five stories, Ernest 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 aand 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.  Bloodline is a miracle of storytelling.

    STORIES INCLUDE:

    A Long Day in November
    The Sky Is Gray
    Three Men
    Bloodline
    Just Like a Tree

    Also by Ernest J. Gaines

    The Tragedy of Brady Sims
    My Grandpa and the Haint
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    Mozart and Leadbelly
    A Lesson Before Dying
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    Also by Ernest J. Gaines

    The Tragedy of Brady Sims
    My Grandpa and the Haint
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    Mozart and Leadbelly
    A Lesson Before Dying
    See all books by Ernest J. Gaines

    About Ernest J. Gaines

    Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is a writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines received a MacArthur Fellowship… More about Ernest J. Gaines

    About Ernest J. Gaines

    Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is a writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines received a MacArthur Fellowship… More about Ernest J. Gaines

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 28, 1997 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679781653

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 31, 2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307830364
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    Praise

    “Mr. Gaines writes with notable control, a superb ear for speech. . . . Brilliantly subtle and complex.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “[Gaines] unerrringly evokes the time and place about which he writes.” —Los Angeles Times

    “Gaines knows how to tell a story—[He writes] with humor, a strong sense of drama and a compassioinate understanding of people who find themselves in opposing positions.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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