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- catalog abstract "The primary narrator is a young girl named Meredith whose mother died just after Meredith and her twin brother were born. Their father, Thomas, is a brooding and diffident man, a doctor we assume is white, although he practices in a poor black New Orleans neighborhood, just as his father devoted his life to making mortuary sculpture for black families. As the novel begins, Thomas is hustling his sleepy children out of the house so that he can leave his second wife, Catherine, before she awakes. As Meredith tries to make sense of this abrupt dislocation, we begin to learn the complex secrets of her family's multiracial past from the second narrator, Murphy, an elderly black man once in the employ of Meredith's grandfather (and a character of tremendous dimension). Catherine is the third narrator; we hear her voice in the letters she writes to her stepdaughter, epistles that gleam with the glare of forbidden truths rarely revealed to adults, let alone to adolescent girls. Each facet of this bittersweet drama reflects the hideous tangle of racism and desire that has long warped and distorted relationships between whites and blacks. Brown explores this sensitive subject with consummate delicacy and eloquent intensity, making us feel the full weight of loss and regret, and the pain of inexpressible love.".
- catalog contributor b5484110.
- catalog coverage "New Orleans (La.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "The primary narrator is a young girl named Meredith whose mother died just after Meredith and her twin brother were born. Their father, Thomas, is a brooding and diffident man, a doctor we assume is white, although he practices in a poor black New Orleans neighborhood, just as his father devoted his life to making mortuary sculpture for black families. As the novel begins, Thomas is hustling his sleepy children out of the house so that he can leave his second wife, Catherine, before she awakes. As Meredith tries to make sense of this abrupt dislocation, we begin to learn the complex secrets of her family's multiracial past from the second narrator, Murphy, an elderly black man once in the employ of Meredith's grandfather (and a character of tremendous dimension). Catherine is the third narrator; we hear her voice in the letters she writes to her stepdaughter, epistles that gleam with the glare of forbidden truths rarely revealed to adults, let alone to adolescent girls. Each facet of this bittersweet drama reflects the hideous tangle of racism and desire that has long warped and distorted relationships between whites and blacks. Brown explores this sensitive subject with consummate delicacy and eloquent intensity, making us feel the full weight of loss and regret, and the pain of inexpressible love.".
- catalog extent "244 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Decorations in a ruined cemetery.".
- catalog identifier "039567025X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Decorations in a ruined cemetery.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Decorations in a ruined cemetery.".
- catalog spatial "New Orleans (La.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Catholics United States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Fathers and daughters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3552.R687 D4 1994".
- catalog subject "Race relations Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Stepmothers Fiction.".
- catalog title "Decorations in a ruined cemetery / John Gregory Brown.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "text".