Title: Bloodline
First published: January 1963
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