BLOOD ON THE FORGE

by William Attaway ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 22, 1941

A second novel by a young Negro writer, this time of his own people, three brothers who leave sharecropping in Kentucky for the Eldorado of the West Virginia steel mills. It's a quite terrible book, blunt, crude, and with many of the heart-and-stomach turning qualities of Native Son. There, in the mills, is an even more relentless exploitation than in the fields, where colored men are hired to break strikes -- lower wages. Dogfights, whores, whisky, the only releases from the blood and sweat of the forge. And of the disintegration of the three brothers, through the Mex girl, Anna, a whore, through blindness and death resulting from an accident -- and strike -- at the mill. Another indictment of social and racial abuses, but difficult to sell.

Pub Date: Aug. 22, 1941

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1941

Categories: FICTION