Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Nothing is ever escaped -- Part one: Deeds of the fathers -- Dying Billy -- Lost boy -- Grimsley -- John Henry, Jimmy Bob -- The Man with his back turned -- Part two: Filling up the frame -- American haunting -- Part three: Hopes of the sons -- Sometimes trashy, sometimes luminous -- The Distance from Natchez, Mississippi, to Santa Teresa, New Mexico -- In the family of Meredith: loving what is theirs -- Confederate shadows: good son -- Epilogue: Hope and history rhyming -- A Bibliographical essay.
