The Glad River

The Glad River

No one in Claughton County ever understood why Doops Momber refused to be baptized: his people were all good Baptists. And no one in Cummings, Mississippi, knew that Kingston Smylieâ€™s daddy was really his granddaddy and that Kingston wasnâ€™t really white. And at Camp Polk, no one knew anything at all about Fordache Arceneau because he spoke only Cajun. They met in basic training. Green kids whoâ€™d always felt themselves to be outsiders, they formed a community of three. They called it the neighborhood. After seeing action together at Guadalcanal, the three friends went back to the lives theyâ€™d each known, but they went on meeting regularly, keeping up the neighborhood. Their lives were untroubled, until the day Fordache found himself accused of murder, on trial for his life. And in a small Southern courtroom in the autumn of 1952, the neighborhood â€” bound by love and based on understanding â€” faced its ultimate test. The Glad River is a deeply affecting novel. Grounded in a particular place and time, its themes are, nonetheless, universal. A novel that probes the limits of religion and the state, it is also the work of a master storyteller and civil rights activist whose works are considered a treasure of modern Southern literature. *Contains strong language, may not be suitable for young readers.
Country USA
Brand Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Manufacturer Holt Rinehart & Winston
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780030598982
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Manufacturer	Holt Rinehart & Winston
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780030598982
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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