The Avenue, Clayton City
1st ed.
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2393987M
- ISBN-100688077021
- OCLC Control Number16578563
- OCLC Control Numberavenueclaytoncit00linc
- Library of Congress Control Number87023581
and 2 more
- LibraryThing986704
- Goodreads3856452
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.I472 A94 1988
Description
The lives, dreams, triumphs, and tragedies of a group of characters center around a mythical avenue in a mythical southern town, in a portrait of the South just prior to World War II. The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln’s fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and empty whiskey bottles on one side of town, it is the same street, though with a different name, that originates downtown. Only when it reaches the black section of Clayton City do the paving stop and the trash-filled ditches begin. On one side, it provides a significant address for the white people who live there. On the other, despite its rundown air, it is still the best address available to the town’s black population. Some of them, in fact, are willing to go to any extreme, including murder, to get there.
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