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| The Tragedy of Brady Sims |
| Author(s): Gaines, Ernest J. |
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| List Price: $11.99 |
| Format: Electronic book text |
| Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Imprint: Vintage |
| ISBN: 9780525434474 |
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| Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves aroun ... |
 | Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order.
After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims—an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small southern town, divided by race, and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northwards during the Great Migration.
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Other Books by this Author
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| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam |
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| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam |
| Bloodline; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Bloodline; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
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| Catherine Carmier; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Catherine Carmier; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Gathering of Old Men; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Gathering of Old Men; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| In My Father's House; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| In My Father's House; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Audio |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying (SparkNotes Literature Guide); by Gaines, Ernest J.; Spark, SparkNotes |
| A Long Day in November; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Ig Publishing, Lizzie Skurnick Books |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Ernest J. Gaines; knopf doubleday publishing group, Knopf |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| My Grandpa and the Haint; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Of Love and Dust; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Of Love and Dust; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
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