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Five smooth stones : a novel / Ann Fairbairn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairbairn, Ann, 1901 or 2-1972.
- Series:
- Rediscovered Classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--Fiction.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (767 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, Inc., 2009.
- Summary:
- David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the beloved and vital white girl who loved David from the moment she first saw him, but they struggled over David's belief that a marriage for them would not be right in the violent world he had to confront. Likening the struggle of black Americans to the ?five smooth stones" the biblical David carried against Goli
- Contents:
- Cover; FIVE SMOOTH STONES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-56976-570-7
- OCLC:
- 647878875
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