by Grace Lumpkin ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14, 1935
The author's To Make My Bread won the Maxim Gorky award for the best labor novel of the year. This is a propaganda novel dealing with the problems of race barriers and the decay of the South, sometimes good, often uneven. The picture is the South today, with the die-hards using old-fashioned methods to prevent the in-roads of communism. A free thinking Negro returns to the plantation of his forbears, tries to organize opposition to the laissez faire policies, is jailed for a crime he did not commit and eventually killed. This is in quite a different vein from Deep, Dark River. Left-wing market.
Pub Date: Oct. 14, 1935
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Lee Furman
Review Posted Online: N/A
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1935
Categories: FICTION
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