The Rock Cried Out

by Ellen Douglas

Overview

This story of the modern South, of love denied and love fulfilled, is a powerful account of the potential for violence that underlies this country's passionate history. Ellen Douglas, a native of Mississippi and a prize-winning novelist of rare distinction, reveals the turbulent changes that rocked the South in the sixties and continue to this day.

No event is predictable in this powerful novel. A young man who has spent several years in the North returns to his native Mississippi seeking rural peace. But solitude is not to be his, for soon he is caught up again in a traumatic event that happened seven years before in 1964—the death in an auto accident of the beautiful young cousin whom he loved.

As the story unfolds, the people who were involved in that senseless tragedy reveal their part in it, and as they do, the reader becomes intensely involved not only in their lives but in what it means to be Black or white in the modern South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496801432
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	09/04/2012
Series:	Banner Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ellen Douglas (1921-2012) was author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, and other works. She was also recipient of the 2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

What People are Saying About This

Richard Ford

It's possible to think that some people were simply born to write. Ellen Douglas is just such a writer.

Editorial Reviews

The Rock Cried Out is powerful and disturbing. It should secure Ellen Douglas' place in the literature of the South.
—New York Times Book Review

Jonathon Yardlay