FREE BLOOD ON THE FORGE 1ST EDITION PDF William Attaway | 9781590171349 | | | | | Blood on the Forge by William Attaway Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. Darryl Pinckney Introduction. This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedented confrontation with Blood on the Forge 1st edition realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction. Blood on the Forge was first published inwhen it attracted the admiring attention of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It is an indispensable account of a major turning point in black history, as well as a triumph of individual style, charged with the concentrated power and poignance of the blues. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Blood on the Forgeplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Blood on the Forge. Dec 17, Tony added it Shelves: nyrb-classicsu-s-lit. Get in the line, the conga line. A party, a reception, a wedding after sufficient drink. Jackets tossed; high heels lost. Day, me say day-o. Hands on your waist from behind; your hands around the waist in front. The singer smiles. He shakes maracas. He is colorfully costumed to please. Me say Day-O. You could be forgiven for not hearing the alternating words. William Attaway co-wrote The Banana Boat Song and looking Blood on the Forge 1st edition the Calypso singer's eyes you might feel the resentment behind the smile and the maracas. He wrote this novel, his last of just two, before Day-O. There's labor and strife and music; but blues here: At night the hills ain't red no more. There ain't no crab-apple trees squat in the hills, no more land to hoe in the red-hot sun -- white the same as black. Where the mule gone at? He only a voice in the pature land. A blinded man wants a red pop, but he can't taste the red anymore. The racism is less overt, less definitive. The violence is not diminished, however, just skewed. Workers suffer; animals suffer; and women. Things get temporal, cultural, situational. Feeling uncomfortable yet? What the banana hides. View all 3 comments. Mar 06, Jacob rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction-and-literature, i-ownnyrb. July In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, the Jews Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace for refusing to worship King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idols, but an angel of the lord saved them from the flames. In Blood on the Forge by William Attaway, the brothers Melody, Big Mat, and Chinatown leave their sharecropper's plot and go north to worship a new god of steel--but they throw themselves into the furnaces, and no angel can step in to save them from the inferno. Look at me July In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, the Jews Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace for refusing to worship King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idols, but an angel of the lord saved them from the flames. Look at me, pretending I know what I'm talking about. My old Sunday School teachers at the Methodist Church would be so proud. Powerful novel from William Attaway, who wrote one other novela few stories, plays, and essays, and not much else--although, as a songwriter, he co- wrote "Day-O The Banana Boat Song" for Harry Belefonte. Yeah, you get it. Apr 27, J. Hushour rated it it was amazing. I measure the worth of a novel by how long, Blood on the Forge 1st edition finishing, it makes me sit there, staring straight ahead feeling fill-in-hyperbolic emotion. This one disturbed the shit out of me Blood on the Forge 1st edition its stark beauty and almost feral sensibility and poeticism. It's easier to make comparisons, so I'd call this a Zola-esque portrait of southern black migrants into the steel hells of the North. It drips red with the vernacular, you I measure the worth of a novel by how long, upon finishing, it makes me sit there, staring straight ahead feeling fill-in-hyperbolic emotion. It drips red with the vernacular, you burn in this book, the brutality of the experience of these three black brothers from Kentucky in a Blood on the Forge 1st edition mill in Pennsylvania is horrifying and unsettling. They move from Hell to Hell, sharecroppers who scrape for food who become tenders to unending and vengeful fire. Sadly overlooked, it seems. Put this on a list somewhere. View 1 comment. Mar 03, Aubrey rated it really liked it Shelves: ccon20nyrb-classicchallengesccb20 Blood on the Forge 1st edition, r-goodreadsperson-of-everythingrantidote-think- twice-readreviewedantidote-think-twice-all. For a man who had ended each year in debt any wage at all was a wonderful thing. For a man who had known no personal liberties even the iron hand of the mills was an advancement. In his own way he thought these things. As yet he could not see beyond them. I hadn't realized how much I was missing this concise yet rolling, understandable yet evocative, 3. I hadn't realized how much I was missing this concise yet rolling, understandable yet evocative, early mid 20thc. US writing until I was finishing up with a relative ease of comprehension and underlying appreciation of prose. Don't get me wrong, the themes are beyond rough, and if you're looking for some kind of character development crescendo that so often shows in various forms of well-intentioned propaganda, look elsewhere. However, the creative prose structure of rhythmic, ever so often call and response intonations, the swift but sure portraits of the North and South, capitalism and sharecropping as two sides of the cursed coin, the juxtaposition of xenophobia and racism and fascist breeding of the two, the narrative structure that was borderline almost but not quite too obvious in its mirroring and its foreshadowing, all was something I could put up with, even appreciate, long enough to like it more than most of what else I've been reading of late. Too much machismo by far, and yet an end stage conversation between a black steel foundry worker and a white sex worker had all of the humanity that every other book I've read this year that dragged in sex work chose to forgo for the sake of sentiment or punch down satire. So, keep the trigger Blood on the Forge 1st edition in mind, and don't expect any Faulknerian fireworks or an uplift beyond what a Blood on the Forge 1st edition and brutal blues breed of naturalism Blood on the Forge 1st edition. This is a tragedy, take it or leave it, and is a truer portrayal of where the blues come from in terms of musicality, sorrow, and going through it all nonetheless, than I've seen in a while. He was trying to figure out if he had done this to himself purposely. In some ways, this work is begging to be taught as literary fiction, perhaps in the American Blood on the Forge 1st edition section that US junior high students are commonly saddled with in public schools. In other ways, the subject material is in no way sanitized, and the challenges to material such as Huck Finn and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' would pale in comparison to the veritable whirlwind that this would generate as assigned reading outside of a college classroom. Still, there is some very interesting analysis Blood on the Forge 1st edition could generate if one didn't worry too much about loose ends and inconclusive conclusions: nature; politics; shifting cultural landscapes; the post Civil War, post WWI confluence of race, religion, gender, industrialization, work, unions, and human rights, all thrown together into a maelstrom of unspoken rules that get Blood on the Forge 1st edition just fine until those up top begin to pit one against another down below. It is not the ideal of those who made it, but what could very well happen in high stake environments where it as much as your money or your life as it is your eyes or your life, your legs or your life, your mind or your life, the chance for progress or your life. If you can get past the rape culture of certain events that are not exactly normalized so much as testified, the reading experience is a rolling meditation on one time and place that generated some of the most profound words, rhythms, and melodies that have ever been brought to life by someone residing in the United States.