The Rock Cried Out

The Rock Cried Out
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781617036033
ISBN-13 : 161703603X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Rock Cried Out by : Ellen Douglas

Download or read book The Rock Cried Out written by Ellen Douglas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of the modern South, of love denied and love fulfilled, is a powerful account of the potential for violence that underlies this country's passionate history. Ellen Douglas, a native of Mississippi and a prize-winning novelist of rare distinction, reveals the turbulent changes that rocked the South in the sixties and continue to this day. No event is predictable in this powerful novel. A young man who has spent several years in the North returns to his native Mississippi seeking rural peace. But solitude is not to be his, for soon he is caught up again in a traumatic event that happened seven years before in 1964--the death in an auto accident of the beautiful young cousin whom he loved. As the story unfolds, the people who were involved in that senseless tragedy reveal their part in it, and as they do, the reader becomes intensely involved not only in their lives but in what it means to be black or white in the modern South.


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