The Avenue, Clayton City

by C. Eric Lincoln

Book Overview

Originally published in 1988, Lincoln's novel creates with deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of Clayton City, a prototypical Southern town, languishing between the two world wars. "One of the best written and most gripping accounts of the African American experience that I have encountered in years".--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688077021
• ISBN13: 9780688077020
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Read this book almosts a decade ago, and still remember it vividly. Life in a small and very emphatically segregated Southern town just before WW II (but it might as well be 1890). C. Eric Lincoln is an academic type, and his knowledge of Black history informs the book without turning into a textbook.