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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... crazy caged canary vision of hers loomed large : Little and lonely looking at first , his beady eyes are fixed directly on Lily , staring her down from between the bars of that big old - fashioned cage . The yellow feathers are smooth ...
... crazy in a way . How could anybody that bossy be a slave ? More likely what Grandfather and Chauncey shared was being slave drivers . Though Chauncey's manner with Grandfather - all easy and folksy - didn't fit with that either . Or can ...
... Crazy but com- forted . Probably , she had to admit , largely because of Chauncey . Whenever he told her one of her clay sculptures was “ smashing , ” Lily knew he was right and felt personally magnified and embellished by the gold of ...
... crazy instead of sick , because all the details of the rooms remained as usual . Despite looking small in this cavernous space , the four tall windows with their gauzy white curtains stretched across the back like always . Also the same ...
... crazy reason , it worried Grace that as happy as they'd looked this morning , Lily might get it into her head to marry Chauncey and move away ! Again , she could barely make out the faraway wail of a baby . But when she strained to hear ...
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