Sinclair Lewis
Hardcover | Pages: 197 pages Rating: 3.98 | 649 Users | 91 Reviews
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| Title | : | Kingsblood Royal |
| Author | : | Sinclair Lewis |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 197 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1997 by Random House Inc (T) (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Race |
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A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood, a typical middle-American banker with a comfortable life, makes the shocking discovery that he has African blood, the odyssey that ensues creates an unforgettable portrayal of two Americas, one black, one white.As timely as when it was first published in 1947, one need only open today's newspaper to see the same issues passionately being discussed between blacks and whites that we find in Kingsblood Royal, says Charles Johnson. Perhaps only now can we fully appreciate Sinclair Lewis's astonishing achievement.
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| Original Title: | Kingsblood Royal |
| ISBN: | 9997412486 (ISBN13: 9789997412485) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 649 Users | 91 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books Kingsblood Royal
This is at least the third time I've read this novel and each time I'm blown away by how insightful Lewis about race relations in America. Sadly his insightfulness exposes how ugly things were in 1947 and how many correlations there are to today. Neil Kingsblood, a veteran of WWII, returns home to Grand Republic, Minnesota after the war, and because he was wounded and now has a slight limp, his father suggests that he should do some family genealogy since he now can't play sports. His fatherIncredible. Kingsblood Royal is the story of the political and social awakening of Neil Kingsblood, a white middle-class nobody who accidentally discovers that he has black ancestry. Sinclair Lewis continues to amaze me with his perception as a critic and his abilities as a storyteller. The novel is set in Minnesota in 1944 and while the intolerance of the time is captured perfectly, I wonder how much (or how little) the story would change were it set in the present day. Highly recommended.
Neil Kingsblood is an affluent white male who recently returned to the mythical town of Grand Republic, Minnesota after being wounded in World War II. After he settles into his predictable life of a rising bank executive, he is asked by his father, who believes that they have distant relatives in the English royal family, to research his genealogy. Instead Neil learns that his ancestor, thought to be a French voyager, was actually black, which makes him 1/32 black. He keeps the news from his
In its truthtelling about Black-White inequality inside U.S. society and (white as well as Black/mixed race) FAMILIES, this book is the literary equivalent of (German director) Douglas Sirk's 1959 film IMITATION OF LIFE. This was Sirk's LAST U.S. film before he returned permanently to EUROPE. Sinclair Lewis wrote KINGSBLOOD ROYAL about people of Black American/African descent IN MINNESOTA -- communities that like to see themselves as "all-white", where fairskinned Blacks were "passing" as being
A cardboard cut-out puppet show would have been more realistic, more convincing and infinitely more interesting than this, this parade of soul-starved mouthpieces.
This is the first Sinclair Lewis book that I have read. It wont be my last. I had no expectations when, on a whim, I pulled the book off my book shelf and began to read it. What I found was a very progressive read, even for our times, and especially for the time in which it was written and set. In this story, Neil Kingsblood, the protagonist, a white man by all regards, is prompted by his father to research his ancestry to see if they are born from royalty. What he finds instead, is that he
Some writers go out with a fizzle, writing pap until they sputter out to die, and other writers go out with a bang, and damn it doesn't get more explosive than Sinclair Lewis' "Kingsblood Royal". Written with the help of Walter White, President of the NAACP as technical consultant, Kingsblood Royal meets American racism head on and doesn't let up until the 349th page.A well-to-do young white couple from small town America treat their black maid like a thief and name their dog "Nigger". They're
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