“Thomas Hardy, full of his own instructions to damaged mankind, would have loved this book.”
Novelist John Irving's review of Tar Baby in the New York Times, March 29, 1981
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Cane
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
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'Bloodchild' and Other Stories
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