Blood on the forge
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Author
Publication
1987 - Monthly Review Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,750 words, Guess
Page Count
315 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2379448M
- ISBN-100853457220
- OCLC Control Number15548936
- OCLC Control Numberbloodonforge0055atta
- Library of Congress Control Number87007968
and 2 more
- Goodreads1378187
- LibraryThing295104
Classifications
- DDC813/.52
- LCCPS3501.T59 B55 1987
Description
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedneted confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.
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Genres
- Fiction.
Series Statement
- Voices of resistance
Other Editions
- Blood on the forge
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