Devil's Elbow (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780983936565)

Marcellus Hightower, the young boy in the novel, THIS IS ADAM, returns to his hometown as a grown man in DEVIL'S ELBOW. He seeks answers, turning for help to Adam Atwell, his surrogate father. Adam, a black man in the segregated South, shares with Marcellus the haunting memory of David Ransom's murder on the mighty Ocmulgee River. The memories interweave with a quarter century of Marcellus Hightower's quest for love and redemption, through his developing character, economic calamity and the turmoil of war. With Adam's sage guidance, he finds a way to "cleanse his heart" and face life anew. "DEVIL'S ELBOW is a powerful novel indeed. The old verities-a man's troubles with women, with himself, with love and guilt-are all treated as freshly as if Cheney had discovered them." Walker Percy (1969)

Author: Brainard Cheney
ISBN-10: 0983936560
ISBN-13: 9780983936565
Publisher: Mmjw Bookhouse
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2012
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d