Title: Of love and dust
First published: 1967
Description: When young Marcus is bonded out of jail, where he has been awaiting his trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. He treats the Cajun overseer, Sidney Bonbon, with supreme contempt, even as Bonbon works him nearly to death. Marcus takes his revenge by first seducing Bonbon's black mistress, Pauline, and then his wife, Louise. Jim Kelly, the tractor driver, watches the contest between the two men, knowing Marcus is doomed and hating him for disturbing the status quo. Grudgingly, however, Jim begins to admire the young man's spirit as the inevitable climactic showdown draws near. --Back cover.
Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, Plantation life, CHR 1979, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), CHR 1994, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, general, African americans, fiction
Places: Louisiana