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The Avenue in author's fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. This book creates with deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of Clayton City.

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“A gripping story.”—John Hope Franklin
“In a direct line of descent from both Richard Wright’s Native Son and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, C. Eric Lincoln’s The Avenue, Clayton City is one of the best written and most gripping accounts of the African American experience that I have encountered in years.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Truly a masterpiece.”—James H. Cone

The Avenue Clayton City

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    A Paperback / softback by C. Eric Lincoln

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 2 April 1996
      ISBN-13 9780822317456
      978-0822317456
      ISBN-10 822317451

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Avenue in author's fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. This book creates with deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of Clayton City.

      Trade Review
      “A gripping story.”—John Hope Franklin
      “In a direct line of descent from both Richard Wright’s Native Son and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, C. Eric Lincoln’s The Avenue, Clayton City is one of the best written and most gripping accounts of the African American experience that I have encountered in years.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
      “Truly a masterpiece.”—James H. Cone

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