| In My Father's House Contributor(s): Gaines, Ernest J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679727914 ISBN-13: 9780679727910 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: A story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | African American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050733 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin--a respected minister and civil rights leader--comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious meeting with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him. "...on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase..."--Kirkus Reviews |