The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1902
A Black family's fall from grace in a small Southern town becomes a harrowing, darkly comic education in New York's promises and cruelties.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872–1906
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved, and he died at thirty-three, four years after this novel appeared.
Feels like grief, morality and family.
The first sign that a new city is quietly ruining you.
Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad. The first sign of the demoralisation of the provincial who comes to New York is his pride at his insensibility to certain impressions which used to influence him at home. First, he begins to scoff, and there is no truth in his views nor depth in his laugh. But by and by, from mere pretending, it becomes real. He grows callous. After that he goes to the devil very cheerfully. Books by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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