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KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Though miscegenation is the theme of this deceptively artless novel, it has no pejorative connotations for a large Louisiana clan until the heroine's racist husband makes a violent entry into politics...
KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Though miscegenation is the theme of this deceptively artless novel, it has no pejorative connotations for a large Louisiana clan until the heroine's racist husband makes a violent entry into politics...
KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Miscegenation, political vengeance and racial hatred unto the third generation are the Faulknerian themes, but Author Grau writes with such quiet directness that the violence serves to define, by contrast, a deeper sense of order and love...
...Frank Yerby romance, such a situation would be accompanied by offstage thunder and lightning. In Novelist Grau's story it makes quiet sense. So does the plot development-melodramatic only in synopsis. Abigail's husband goes into segregationist politics. Grandfather's open secret does not bother the voters-until an opponent discovers that he had not just taken his Negro girl for a mistress; he had married her. As outraged as any of his supporters at this breach in the code, Abigail's husband does what he has to do: he leaves her, abandons his campaign...
...reader is left with a flooding sense of the density of the past. This, and the knowledge of a vast land's dark extent, are what Shirley Ann Grau sets down uncommonly well...