Bloodline

Description:

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

subjects: Fiction,  Social life and customs,  African Americans,  Plantation life,  Short stories,  Manners and customs,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Louisiana, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  African American men,  Sharecroppers

Places: Louisiana