Late in this novel, a character who sports a beaver hat and a gold toothpick pays a legal fee by counting out two dollars in pennies. A boy in this novel receives an unwanted bucket of molasses months after he throws down 70 cents to save face over being rescued from an icy creek. An adaptation of this novel is “the only film that could be shown in Harlem without arousing unintended laughter” according to the title essay of (*) Ralph Ellison’s Shadow and Act. A stream-of-consciousness passage from this novel states that “whenever he wants it,” “every Southern boy fourteen years old” can imagine the instant before Pickett’s charge. In this novel, Miss Eunice Habersham helps the white teenager Chick Mallison exonerate a Black farmer who had earlier saved his life. For 10 points, Lucas Beauchamp appears in what mystery novel, a quasi-sequel to Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner? ■END■
ANSWER: Intruder in the Dust (The Ellison essay is actually titled “The Shadow and the Act.”)
<Nick Jensen, American Literature>
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