Larry D. Clark

If Not This Dream (eBook, ePUB)

Book Two : Zaki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

IF NOT THIS DREAM is an 1134-page fast-paced novel, presented in three books. Five generations after the death of Zaki I, his namesake Zaki II begins his quest to fulfill his ancestors dream. The pureblooded Hausa-American thrives under the passionate mentoring hands of Thomas Biggs, the last of the white family that brought the original patriarch out of Africa into slavery on their plantation twenty-five miles northeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Biggs subconscious desire to erase the evils of his family turns into genuine love of the African-American boy he supports. Biggs enrolls Zaki in Porter-Gaud School, a K-12 private preparatory school in Charleston. Zaki quickly becomes a best friend of Paula Walton, a white senators daughter. Their relationship quickly creates tension in the Walton family, especially when they reach high school age. Zaki becomes a high school football sensation, drawing attention from all the big colleges in the country. Paula joins the rally squad. A local newspaper maintains a special section to keep track of Zakis statistics as he attempts to become the greatest football player in Porter-Gaud history. To create balance in his life, Biggs develops Zaki into a virtuoso classical pianist. Paula becomes a prima ballerina. Along with other Porter-Gaud students, Zaki and Paula perform for huge audiences in Charleston. Zaki learns to sail Thomas Biggs 134-foot, two-masted yacht Santee. He sails into the open ocean with Paula. He shows Paula the necklace of lion claws and leather pouch of African earth that has been handed down to him by his father and grandfather, symbols of his new position as leader of the Hausas on Biggs Farms. Even though everyone at Porter-Gaud accepts that Zaki and Paula are a couple, by the end of their high school years, they still had not had a formal date. Thomas Biggs wills Zaki his vast family fortune

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504925686
• Artikelnr.: 52601820

Autorenporträt

Larry D. Clark began writing If Not This Dream by hand in in 1967, filling several spiral notebooks with notes and the story. He worked on it, off and on, throughout his forty-six-year teaching career. Motivated by his belief that African-Americans, especially the former slaves, have been trapped in the wilderness since the Emancipation Proclamation. He believes the vast majority of Blacks in America are still looking for the Promised Land. He believes big-city ghettos and Indian reservations serve the same purpose, to keep the inhabitants irrelevant and separated from the dominant society. He believes both races were never meant to be fully included in American mainstream society. In his book you will find information about President Abraham Lincoln that you will never find in your local high school library. He spent many thousands of hours researching Black history and slavery to write this book. His controversial book will entertain you and hopefully encourage you to seriously consider why non-violent radical measures must be taken by Black people to truly emancipate themselves and revive their beautiful souls and culture. If they don't, it will never happen.