Red, White And Black: Twelve Stories Of The South - Softcover

Edmunds, Murrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1258248239 ISBN 13: 9781258248239

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Excerpt from Red, White and Black: Twelve Stories of the South

He was washing his ear with a finger dripping with lather, his face screwed up into a grotesque mask, when suddenly the words raced through his brain: "...a small portion of the ruling class breaks away to make common cause with the revolutionary class, the class which holds the future in its hands."

He withdrew his finger slowly from his ear, and sat motionless in the water with his eyes still shut, his hand still poised beside his head, his finger still extended in the manner of a speaker about to make a vigorous affirmative gesture. Gradually he relaxed. His face lost its tight, unnatural lines, his eyes blinked wide open, and he dropped his hand slowly into the tub.

Sitting there in the soapy water he looked for all the world like a wrinkled priest of some remote and savage tribe. On top his head was almost completely bald and he had allowed the fringe of hair around the sides to grow too long, thus giving to his naturally large head an appearance of roundness which accentuated its size. His face was pale and unhealthy. The flesh, beginning tightly at the massive brow, gradually loosened itself into a multitude of wrinkles about his eyes and cheeks, until by the time it reached his sharp chin and neck, it had become so full and soft and fleshy as to hang there like a wrinkled cloak which is too large for its wearer. His nose was small and sharp, and his glasses had made a small, red ridge across the bridge.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1258248239
• ISBN 13: 9781258248239
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 152