The Rock Cried Out

by Ellen Douglas

Book Overview

It is the beginning of 1971 and Alan McLaurin, at twenty-two a young idealist and aspiring poet, dreaming of solitude and longing for the wintry smell of cedar and pine he knew growing up in rural Mississippi, has left Boston behind to return to what remains of his family's ancestral homeplace in Chickasaw Ridge. He finds the small closed community still haunted by memories of 1964, when civil rights activists fought for integration while the Ku Klux...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807119318
• ISBN13: 9780807119310
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"