- Fiction, African American men in fiction, Grandparent and child, Children of prisoners in fiction
"Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third and final chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement." -- Back cover.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Alice Walker
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, Harcourt
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780753819500
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“BROWNFIELD STOOD CLOSE to his mother in the yard, not taking his eyes off the back of the receding automobile.”
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