Such Was the Season

Clarence Major

Original title: Such was the season

first published 1987 Mercury House, 1990 paperback 213 pages

Voices of the South

Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly matriarch of a large black family in Atlanta. Annie Eliza narrates the story of "a killer diller" week, with the homecoming of her nephew, Adam "Juneboy" North, a doctor at Yale who has been gone for more than twenty-five years. Following her nephew's arrival Annie Eliza's daughter-in-law declares her intention to run for a seat in the sta...

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Such was the season edition · 2003 · Louisiana State University Press · 213 pages
Such Was the Season paperback · 1990 · Mercury House · 213 pages · 9780916515683
Such was the season edition · 1987 · Mercury House · 213 pages

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