Bloodline
By: by Ernest J. Gaines.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction.; Plantation life -- Fiction.; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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. Above all, Mr. Gaines portrays African American males as real men inspite of the odds they encounter.