Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Gaines, Ernest J. |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 6/30/1992 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past…
In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious “meeting” with the Reverend.
In the confrontation between the two, the young man’s secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him.
“…on every page there’s an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews
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