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Bloodline: Five Stories Paperback - 1997

by Ernest J. Gaines


About this book

The third published book by master-storyteller Ernest Gaines, this collection of five stories was first published in 1968. Included are A Long Day in November, The Sky Is Gray, Three Men, Bloodline and Just Like a Tree. \

From the publisher

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

From the jacket flap

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

First Edition Identification

First edition published by Dial, New York in 1968. 

Details

  • Title Bloodline: Five Stories
  • Author Ernest J. Gaines
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Vintage Cont
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Date 1997-10-28
  • ISBN 9780679781653 / 067978165X
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.16 x 0.56 in (20.73 x 13.11 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Plantation life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97035629
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Times, 02/01/1998, Page 28

About the author

Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupe Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.
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