- African Americans, Fiction, Social life and customs, Working class
Twelve stories explore the borders between black and white America as they are crossed and known by students and Peace Corps volunteers of the 1960s, failed preachers, young punks, jealous lovers, and others.
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Classical in form, earnest, prestige and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- James Alan McPherson
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Fawcett, Fawcett Crest, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449241356
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American essayist and short-story writer, who was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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