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Lincoln, C. Eric The Avenue, Clayton City Duke Univ Pr 1996 0822317451 / 9780822317456 Trade Paperback Near-Fine Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 248 pages. - The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln'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. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and empty whiskey bottles on one side of town, it is the same street, though with a different name, that originates downtown. Only when it reaches the black section of Clayton City do the paving stop and the trash-filled ditches begin. On one side, it provides a significant address for the white people who live there. On the other, despite its rundown air, it is still the best address available to the town's black population. Some of them, in fact, are willing to go to any extreme, including murder, to get there. In this novel, originally published in 1988, Lincoln creates with deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of Clayton City. In turn amusing, disgusting, enraging, wistful, and, as one hears the secrets hidden deep in their hearts, shocking, they exist in a place whose vibrant personality is itself a unique configuration of geography, relationships, patterns of behavior, and events. It is also a place whose unspoken and hidden power lies in its crushing compulsion to maintain itself as it already is-a power that forces everyone to succumb to an inflexible social order. As one character, Dr. Walter Tait, knows, life in Clayton City is a nightmare that can be escaped only if one makes the agonizing and conscious decision to get out. For Dr. Tait, the decision specifically poses a question of having control over death since he has none over life. As another character, Buford Atkins, says, "It's dark out here on the Avenue. . . ." Price:
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