The blood of the fathers, their 'curse', becomes one of the themes in the first three stories: Was, The Fire and the Hearth, and Pantaloon in Black. "to the boy those old times would cease to be old times and would become a part of the boy's present, not only as if they had happened yesterday but as if they were still happening," (p. Show More past, present and future - is connected by the blood the bloodlines of the family. It's a moving exposition of the American South, worth reading either to better understand boht black and white culture in that South, or simply to be carried off into another world by some astounding prose. This is a sad, sad story of men's pride, women's degradation, the corrupting abuse of power the equally corrupting influence of having now power when one man can be considered to "own" another. The prose, which seems at first glance to be so complex and without identifiable form as to be impenetrable, will soon charm you and draw you into ints web you'll forget all about grammar constructs as you tumble over ideas, people, and events. No matter how much you feel like you're lost in some maze, or hurtling down the hill acquiring more and more mass like that mythical snowball from your youth, just keep on reading. Show More placed in the middle of some strange goings-on and must try to decipher both the characters and their convoluted family relationshiips, and the elusive plotline.īut keep reading.
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