{"product_id":"bloodline-five-stories","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 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.\n\nGaines 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. Bloodline is a miracle of storytelling.\n\nSTORIES INCLUDE:\n\nA Long Day in November\nThe Sky Is Gray\nThree Men\nBloodline\nJust Like a Tree\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 067978165X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.067978165X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gaines, Ernest J.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41455467724858,"sku":"DBV.067978165X.G","price":5.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/067978165X-0.jpg?v=1781057859","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/bloodline-five-stories","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}