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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... play at church Sunday . ” Pinching her lips together to hush the mad , Lily felt smoke rising out of her ears . Then , that crazy caged canary vision of hers loomed large : Little and lonely looking at first , his beady eyes are fixed ...
... play at church when Mama asks , wearing that blue and white dress because Chauncey likes it . When I've worked hard all my life to be anybody's equal ; when there's no other faculty at the Design School whose work gets in public ...
... play up this other guy's paintings . " Despite her urge to stomp out , Lily strained to be critical . Had she been too dumb to notice a catastrophe ? Did she actually need Chauncey to do this for her ? She was still puzzling over this ...
... 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 through without a fight . Letting go of his sleeve and stepping close to him ...
... playing on the stereo , this house , inside at least , was a glowing reflection of Grace Babcock ! Yet , this morning the whole place felt drab . And empty . Passing cars rattled the windows louder than usual ; the floorboards kept ...
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