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Gaines’s 1964 novel, Catherine Carmier shows how characters deal with decisions based on their beliefs. Catherine, the daughter of a rich Creole, falls in love with Jackson Bradley, a black man caught between his love for Catherine and his understanding of the world beyond the community in which they live.
Also a story of disallowed love, Of Love and Dust continues Gaines’s search for human dignity. Published by Dial in 1967, Gaines’s second novel portrays the doomed relationship between a black man and his white boss’s wife.
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