Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable

by Ronald L. Fair

Book Overview

Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America--set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended

From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks

The premise of Ronald Fair's short, parable-like novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (1965), is that in a rural corner of Mississippi--the fictional Jacobs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598537636
• ISBN13: 9781598537635
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"