title: Covenant: Faces, Voices, Places
author:  Will D. Campbell 
description: have fixed; thanks for checking This striking volume evokes the world of the South in photos and text. Award-winning photographer Clayton's (Still Hungry in America) black-and-white photos, taken between 1963 and 1989, inspired the monologues by Campbell ( author of the highly praised Forty Acres and a Goat and Brother to a Dragonfly) , in which fictional, archetypal Southerners speak about their lives. Together they convey the diversity, tensions, confusions, moral ambiguities, terrors, humor and indomitable spirit of the region. Among the soliloquies: a devout, longsuffering black maid, nurturer of her sharp-tongued mistress's children, reflects on a life of service; though proud of his son's involvement in the "Move-ment," a black man is confused about his own identification ("from nigger to African-American") in a changing world. A white supremacist talks to an imaginary reporter about his younger son's arrest for a KKK murder of a "communist" and reveals the pain of the loss of his older boy in Vietnam; a woman burdened by poverty and five children muses: "My life has been one long line of troubles. Work. Get sick. Go on welfare." Campbell captures the textures and rhythms of Southern speech, differentiating and authenticating the voices of his composite characters, while Clayton's powerful pictures invest his subjects with dignity and invite compassion. <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Cover image: An 18th Century Man © Laura Kate Bradley, courtesy of
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  Cover design copyright © 2018 by Covenant Communications, Inc.
  
  Author Photo copyright © 2018 Annalisa Photography
  
  Published by Covenant Communications, Inc.
  
  American Fork, Utah
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Sarah M. Eden
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any format or
  in any medium without the written permission of the publisher, Covenant
  Communications, Inc., P.O. Box 416, American Fork, UT 84003. The views
  expressed within this work are the sole responsibility of the author and do
  not necessarily reflect the position of Covenant Communications, Inc., or any
  other entity.
  
  This is a work of fiction. The characters, names, incidents, places, and
  dialogue are either products of the author’s imagination, and are not to be
  construed as real, or are used fictitiously.
  
  First Printing: June 2018
  
  ISBN: 978-1-52440-525-0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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