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The Dog Star

Fifty years after its original publication in 1950, The Dog Star, one of the classics of Southern literature, is restored to print. The story of 15-year-old Blackie Pride, The Dog Star chronicles the life and hardships of this young boy as he roams the streets of Atlanta's post-Depression inner-city in the 1930s.

Long regarded as a classic of southern literature, The Dog Star is the story of 15-year old Blackie Pride, a protagonist who idealizes indifference and is hard to sympathize with; yet we do. Consumed by his memories of Whitey Maddox, a recent suicide at their juvenile detention school, Blackie increasingly holds what he considers the frailty and weakness of his friends and family in contempt. He roams the streets of Atlanta's 1930s, post-Depression inner-city "dry earth littered with chewing gum and candy bar wrappers, ice cream cups and wooden spoons, cigarettes and contraceptive packages" until he meets his tragic end. His is a story of the search for identity as profoundly relevant today as when first written.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781892514097
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 1998