The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln's fictional town is the principal
residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a
prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars.
Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and empty
whiskey bottles on one side of town, it is the same street, though
with a different name, that originates downtown. Only when it
reaches the black section of Clayton City do the paving stop and
the trash-filled ditches begin. On one side, it provides a
significant address for the white people who live there. On the
other, despite its rundown air, it is still the best address
available to the town's black population. Some of them, in fact,
are willing to go to any extreme, including murder, to get there.
In this novel, originally published in 1988, Lincoln creates with
deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of
Clayton City. In turn amusing, disgusting, enraging, wistful, and,
as one hears the secrets hidden deep in their hearts, shocking,
they exist in a place whose vibrant personality is itself a unique
configuration of geography, relationships, patterns of behavior,
and events. It is also a place whose unspoken and hidden power lies
in its crushing compulsion to maintain itself as it already is--a
power that forces everyone to succumb to an inflexible social
order.
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 1996 |
First published: |
April 1996 |
Authors: |
C. Eric Lincoln
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Dimensions: |
152 x 229 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-1745-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-8223-1745-1 |
Barcode: |
9780822317456 |
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