Black April Hardback - 1998
by Julia Peterkin
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- Title Black April
- Author Julia Peterkin
- Binding Hardback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens
- Date 1998-02-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780820319537
- ISBN 9780820319537 / 0820319538
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.03 x 0.71 in (19.51 x 12.78 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, African Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97030012
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Plowing, hog-killing, revival meetings, and conjure bags - evidence of a world dominated by hard work, religion, and magic - drive the plot of Julia Peterkin's powerful first novel, Black April, first published in 1927. In this book, the classic theme of a proud man confronting his own mortality and the tragic consequences of human desire are played out against the rituals of black country life. "The figure of Black April, the foreman of Blue Brook Plantation, who gives the book its title, is of the heroic, almost grandiose, mold of the legendary protagonists of fiction", the New York Times wrote in an early review.