The Red Pony Donald Nicholson-Smith including oblique and elegiac tales

including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940)

the lessons maddeningly obscure

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality

and has since published twenty-one titles

an angry socialist drunkard

The Red Pony Donald Nicholson-Smith including oblique and elegiac talesJody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In The Red Pony, Jody begins to learn about adulthood its pain, its responsibilities and its problems through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the