Youngblood (Paperback, New Ed)

A Negro novel being reissued in hardcovers after twelve years, Youngblood is about intolerance in Georgia and is timelier than ever. Set in the Twenties and Thirties, the very long story indicts the Georgia "crackers" for their total oppression of Negroes and details the rise of a hotelworkers' union (colored). Sensational incidents are contrasted with rock-bottom home life in the Youngblood family. Killens' vision wavers between stereotypes and accurate social realism and it features reams of richly recorded Negro speech. Also a coming-of-age novel, it works toward a dramatic riot and a death that herald the present Civil Rights revolution. It keeps an objective grip on itself, except in moments of pathos, and the sexual material is either soft-pedaled or necessary to the rhetoric of the plot. All of the novel relates to oppression; there is precious little about happy times, on the one hand, nor are broken homes, illegitimate children and so on more than mentioned. The melancholy banality of these driven lives is captured with great success, while constant fear lends convincing urgency to the story's scheme. (Kirkus Reviews)

John Oliver Killens's landmark novel of social protest chronicles the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads, Georgia, from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Its large cast of powerfully affecting characters includes Joe Youngblood, a tragic figure of heroic physical strength; Laurie Lee, his beautiful and strong-willed wife; Richard Myles, a young high school teacher from New York; and Robby, the Youngbloods' son, who takes the large risk of becoming involved in the labor movement.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	April 2000
Authors:	John Oliver Killens
Foreword by:	Addison Gayle
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	488
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2201-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-8203-2201-6
Barcode:	9780820322018

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