The Spyglass Tree (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Murray
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1910’s to the 1930’s
- Setting: Southern Alabama
- Principal Characters: Scooter, Little Buddy Marshall, Luzana Cholly, Lexine Metcalf, B. Franklin Fisher, T. Jerome Jefferson, Giles Cunningham, Hortense Hightower, Dudley Philpot
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Adolescence, South or Southerners, Music or musicians, Education or educators, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Youth, Alabama, Colleges or universities, Higher education, Nightclubs
- Locales: South (U.S.), Alabama
The Novel
The Spyglass Tree is the story of a young African American who grows up in Gasoline Point, Mobile County, Alabama, and who attends a famous African American college, identifiable geographically as Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama. The story is a continuation of Murray’s first novel, Train Whistle Guitar (1974), which follows Scooter from the ages of ten to fourteen. This novel is told in a series of flashbacks, dealing alternately with Scooter’s days at the Mobile County Training Academy and at the university, ending...
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