Green Thursday
Subtitle: stories
By: by Julia Peterkin ; foreword by Charles Joyner.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Plantation life -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Vividly rendering the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations of a bygone rural south, these closely connected stories revolve around the sometimes tragic lives of a black farming couple, Killdee and Rose Pinesett. When it first appeared in the 1920s, Green Thursday's unsentimental portrayal of African Americans was startlingly ahead of its time - enough so to inspire hate mail from white Southerners accusing the author, herself white, of betraying her race.

At the same time, however, Green Thursday was praised by reviewers and social observers from all quarters, including W. E. B. Du Bois, who called it "a beautiful book."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvii-xlvii).
"Brown thrasher books."