Black Cloud, White Cloud (Author and Artist Series) - Hardcover

Douglas, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087805393X ISBN 13: 9780878053933

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1989

Synopsis

A collection of short fiction by the acclaimed author of Can’t Quit You, Baby, in a new edition enhanced with fourteen illustrations by an artist who has grasped the subtle issues in these four stories that explore the intimacy and estrangement between the races in the American South

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Douglas is the author of numerous novels and a collection of essays, Witnessing. She is the recipient of the 2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

From Publishers Weekly:

Included in this new edition of an important Southern writer's short fiction originally published in 1963 (and long out of print) are powerful illustrations by a young Southern artist. In these four stories, Douglas ( Can't Quit You Baby ) reintroduces some of the characters from in her award-winning first novel, A Family's Affairs . In their Mississippi-bounded, small-town lives, the big issues of race and relationships arise in varied and subtle forms. The House on the Bluff , home to the well-off Bairds, is controlled by their housekeeper, Tete, a remarkable and mysterious black woman whose legacy to a young child is summed up in the observation, "A child so seldom senses justice in a grown person that he cannot forget it." This long story of a family's gentle evolution through the generations in an antebellum house is a masterpiece that subtly indicates the burden of relationships in families, between blacks and whites, in a shifting milieu. The remaining, shorter stories, "Jessie," "I Just Love Carrie Lee" and "Hold On," are equally rewarding, understated yet vibrant with compassion and understanding.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 087805393X
• ISBN 13: 9780878053933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233
• Illustrator: Wolfe Elizabeth