ASIN: B009V3FDS6
Publisher: MM John Welda BookHouse
Pages: 274
Marcellus Hightower, the young boy in the novel, THIS IS ADAM, returns to his hometown as a grown man in DEVIL'S ELBOW. He seeks answers, turning for help to Adam Atwell, his surrogate father. Adam, a black man in the segregated South, shares with Marcellus the haunting memory of David Ransom's murder on the mighty Ocmulgee River. The memories interweave with a quarter century of Marcellus Hightower's quest for love and redemption, through his developing character, economic calamity and the turmoil of war. With Adam's sage guidance, he finds a way to "cleanse his heart" and face life anew. "DEVIL'S ELBOW is a powerful novel indeed. The old verities—a man's troubles with women, with himself, with love and guilt—are all treated as freshly as if Cheney had discovered them." Walker Percy (1969)Author Brainard Cheney (1900-1990) grew up in the small south Georgia river town of Lumber City. ...
