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The tragedy of Brady Sims / Ernest J. Gaines.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A355 T73 2017
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LIBRA PS3557.A355 T73 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019, author.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novellas.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 114 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims--an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small southern town, divided by race, and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northwards during the Great Migration"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Ernest J. Gaines's new novella is about a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "August 2017"--Title page verso.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Honor, 2018
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- Tragedy of Brady Sims.
- ISBN:
- 9780525434467
- 0525434461
- OCLC:
- 971509228
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