Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312285566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An intense and passionate story."- Ebony"Julius Lester is foremostamong black writers who produce their works from a position of historical strength."- The New York Times Book Review"Lester forces us to feel the texture of the South as it must have feltat once lamentational, cautionary, and joyous."- The Boston Globe
In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.--the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as "the Colored Billy Graham"--is trying to compose his own obituary on what will be the last day of his life. In doing so, he looks back over that life--from his childhood in rural nothern Mississippi to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, from tears of humiliation to songs of celebration and triumph.When Do Lord Remember was first published in 1984, the Chicago Sun-Times compared it to Alex Haley's Roots, Newsday described it as "exquisitely crafted," People as "distinguished," the <
Moving! Do Lord, Remember Me is a story about a man, Joshua Smith, who has truly lived his life. As he faces his last days and prepares to write his obituary he reflects on his accomplishments and failures as a parent, minister, and politician. However, the book is more than a "fictional memoir"- it is a history lesson. Spanning decades beginnin. Testimony The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers Have you ever wondered if your life made a difference? Have you ever feared death? These are the two main themes of Julius Lester's DO LORD REMEMBER ME, a compelling novel in which the main character Reverend Joshua Smith reflects over his life and prepares for his death. As he struggles to gather enough clarity to prepare his own obitua. "still will touch the souls of readers" according to A Customer. He knows he is dying, but no longer fears Death. He writes his obit, but struggles with his memories and his writing hand as the stroke has debilitated him, but he accepts the late evening of his life with death near. Reverend Joshua Smith, Sr. looks back to morning in Jim Crow Mississippi as the seventh child but did his time begin in 1