{"product_id":"bloodline-five-stories-9780679781653","title":"Bloodline: Five Stories","description":"In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels \u003ci\u003eA Gathering of Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Lesson Before Dying\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGaines introduces us to this world through the eyes of guileless children and wizened jailbirds, black tenants and white planters. He shows his characters eking out a living and making love, breaking apart aand coming together. And on every page he captures the soul of black community whose circumstances make even the slightest assertion of self-respect an act of majestic--and sometimes suicidal--heroism. \u003ci\u003eBloodline\u003c\/i\u003e is a miracle of storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSTORIES INCLUDE: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Long Day in November\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky Is Gray\u003cbr\u003eThree Men\u003cbr\u003eBloodline\u003cbr\u003eJust Like a Tree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679781653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.16w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/1998 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ernest J. Gaines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204960321717,"sku":"9780679781653","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_090091fb-cd15-4b8d-b49f-0cd4c0de4b72.jpg?v=1698127013","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bloodline-five-stories-9780679781653","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}