The Eyes of the FatheriUniverse, 22.4.2005 - 356 sivua "After more than forty years, Lucy Daniels, author of the prize-winning Caleb, My Son, returns with a new novel, The Eyes of the Father, with the same vigor and passion but with a honed wisdom and wealth of insight. Daniels is a remarkably gifted writer who sings a tremblingly beautiful song." -Dannye Romine Powell, author of Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers "As a black woman artist who deals with race and identity in my paintings, I resonated with the inner conflicts of Lucy Daniels' beautifully drawn characters in The Eyes of the Father." -Beverly McIver, Artist "Simple clarity lit onto layers of complex emotions are the brushstrokes by which Lucy Daniels paints her tale of a South never rid of its history. The Eyes of the Father sings to a soulful rhythm of sustenance in the battle between tradition and its invisible enemy, indifference." -Martin Tucker, Writer/Editor As a small child in Los Angeles, blue-eyed, red-haired, black-skinned Lily Price, daughter of a flamboyant white musician and a beautiful black singer, glories in the delight her father shows for her and her strikingly "special" appearance. But when tragedy brings Lily and her mother back east to the rigidly conservative home of her fundamentalist minister grandfather in Millboro, North Carolina, "special" is viewed as "freak." Lily's emotional response to this loss is only one of several with which this story demonstrates the power the past wields over the present. |
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... fingers were the same color . Discovering that similarity had been the inspiration then ; discovering this new resemblance now wobbled her between rich and embarrassed . Nor was Chauncey any help , because she'd never shown him these ...
... fingers against the white keys ; and somehow that familiar contrast bolstered a feeling that Chauncey Bledsoe had liked her more than he'd expected . God knows why ! She never saw him again that night , because the place grew crowded ...
... fingers moving like snake - toed tap dancers at the end of each wrist . Their performance of " Mack the Knife " sent a gasp around the room and thrilled Lily as much as all these other people who'd paid to hear Jeremiah Price . And his ...
... feeling . Studying her , she could see Peggy was holding her hands out in a funny way with the fingers spread apart . Marion did that when her nails were still wet from being polished . The cat - 56 - The Eyes of the Father: C h a p t e r ...
... fingers wide apart , Peggy looked uneasy her- self . Like a bird that wants to fly but doesn't know how . When Lily kept looking at her without speaking , she asked , “ Wanna come get some breakfast ? " Walking behind her down the hall ...
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