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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... he'd been , you'd think he'd be as unfazed by an old lady's love life as by the blue eyes in Lily's black face . " At least seventy - something , " she replied , putting on her sunglasses against the glare . " Her mama was a cousin of ...
... he'd never admit it . But his laid - backness there compared with his prissy high - horseness here made Lily's blood boil . Who'd have thought the man for whom her heart had always hungered would turn out to be an ass - licker ...
... he'd patted her hand in the car this morning and the way he beamed when she played the piano at The Purple Onion . Also the fun they'd had at the beach in June . Good reasons for Lily now to be the person in charge who tried to get ...
... he'd added to the fireplace had been for the sake of convenience , not appearance . The same as his lounge chair . The red paisley arm- chair he'd only agreed to reluctantly . Not until after his death had Grace replaced their lavender ...
... he'd had in their less than a year of marriage , had insisted she keep their Atlantic City apartment . But the most painful gift had come from Tom Perkins in the form of the Spring Street duplex when Grace's need to marry and have ...
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