num_pages: 294
description: The South of these nine stories is filled with tension, crisis, and decision: a man walks out of prison only to entangle himself in the strands of his malevolent past; a diabolic stranger sets a small community against itself; a family clothes its poverty with genteel pretense; a wife acquiesces to her husband and in-laws' connivance over a forged will. From the black bayou waters of Louisiana to the red clay gullies of Alabama's pine woods, in the menacing shadows of the Pair-a-Dice Bar and around a family kitchen table by the first light of morning, Shirley Ann Grau's characters face the enormity of death, dream of crossing the color line, and test themselves and others in a variety of ways. An honest and unsentimental writer, Grau has created a remarkable range of characters and situations that will haunt readers' memories long after their stories have been set aside.White Girl, Fine Girl --The Black Prince --Miss Yellow Eyes --The Girl with the Flaxen Hair --The Bright Day --Fever Flower --The Way of a Man --One Summer --Joshua
language: English
title: The Black Prince and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Black Prince and Other Stories (Brown Thrasher Books)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Southern
ratings_count: 37
awards: awardedAt: -441820800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr