![]() ![]() The novel opens when ten-year-old Lonnie Henson, a white boy, accidentally witnesses a lynching, more accurately, a public mass murder. ![]() ![]() In Grooms’ novel, changes of heart, changes of attitude are crucial, not in the religious sense, to earn a blissful afterlife, but to make life more humane right here. We must not in fact continue obstinately in the same ways. Peter who declares that tradition, like silver and gold, can be a "vain conversation" and will not redeem the soul. The "conversation" of the title refers to the First Epistle of St. Now we have a new novel, "The Vain Conversation," set mainly in Georgia in the late 1940s and based very loosely on an actual event. Perhaps for these reasons, there has been no fiction since 2001. Since 1994 Grooms has taught at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, with stints in Sweden and Ghana, and has been very active in the Georgia literary scene. He has also published a volume of poetry and a children's book. ![]() In 1995 his story collection "Trouble No More " won the Lillian Smith Award, given to a book that explores issues of race and social justice, and then his novel "Bombingham" (2001) also won that award. Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press, Story River BooksĪnthony Grooms' career got off to a most auspicious beginning. ![]()
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