The Rock Cried Out (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Josephine Ayres Haxton
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s and the 1970’s
- Setting: Homochitto County, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Alan McLaurin, Miriam West, Phoebe Chipman, Dallas Boykin, Sam Daniels, Leila McLaurin
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: Civil rights, 1960’s, 1970’s, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Mississippi, Accidents
- Locales: Mississippi, Homochitto County, MS
The Novel
Ellen Douglas tells the story of the emergence of a new South. She also tells about a local Mississippi boy who comes home to discover that new South and to discover the truth about the past. The novel opens with Alan McLaurin making his way back home to Mississippi after having spent a number of years in the Northeast. Hitchhiking, he is picked up by a carload of blacks. Marveling at the changes, he explains that he has been away from Homochitto County, Mississippi, for a number of years, but that now he is home to settle down on his family’s land in the country....
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