{"product_id":"bloodline-isbn-9780679781653","title":"Bloodline","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTORIES INCLUDE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Long Day in November\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky Is Gray\u003cbr\u003eThree Men\u003cbr\u003eBloodline\u003cbr\u003eJust Like a Tree“Mr. Gaines writes with notable control, a superb ear for speech. . . . Brilliantly subtle and complex.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Gaines] unerrringly evokes the time and place about which he writes.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gaines knows how to tell a story—[He writes] with humor, a strong sense of drama and a compassioinate understanding of people who find themselves in opposing positions.” —Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003eErnest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish near New  Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is  writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at  Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T.  MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996  he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of  France’s highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar,  Louisiana.Author of A Lesson Before Dying","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301251862757,"sku":"NP9780679781653","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679781653.jpg?v=1767722813","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/bloodline-isbn-9780679781653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}