{"product_id":"9780679781653","title":"Bloodline","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTORIES INCLUDE:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Long Day in November\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky Is Gray\u003cbr\u003eThree Men\u003cbr\u003eBloodline\u003cbr\u003eJust Like a Tree\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019780767984,"sku":"9780679781653","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679781653_p0.jpg?v=1763606006","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679781653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}