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Blood on the Forge

William Attaway

3.82/5 (530 ratings)

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This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedented confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.

Blood on the Forge was first published in 1941, when it attracted the admiring attention of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It is an indispensable account of a major turning point in black history, as well as a triumph of individual style, charged with the concentrated power and poignance of the blues.

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Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2005

Publisher:: New York Review of Books Classics

Edition:: Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1590171349

ISBN13:: 9781590171349

kindle Asin:: B00FO5W6JE

Blood on the Forge

William Attaway

3.82/5 (530 ratings)

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This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedented confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.

Blood on the Forge was first published in 1941, when it attracted the admiring attention of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It is an indispensable account of a major turning point in black history, as well as a triumph of individual style, charged with the concentrated power and poignance of the blues.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2005

Publisher:: New York Review of Books Classics

Edition:: Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1590171349

ISBN13:: 9781590171349

kindle Asin:: B00FO5W6JE

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