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Fat Time and Other Stories (Paperback)
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Fat Time and Other Stories (Paperback)
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In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the
boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find
themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,
reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are
characters of Allen’s invention: two teenagers in an unnamed big
city who stumble through a down-low relationship; an African
preacher visits a Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils
of fornication in an Italian villa imported to America by Abraham
Lincoln; and an albino revolutionary who struggles with leading his
people into conflict. The two strands in this brilliant story
collection—speculative history and tender, painful depictions of
Black life in urban America—are joined by African notions of
circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once.
Here the natural and supernatural, the sacred and the profane, the
real and fantastical, destruction and creation are held in delicate
and tense balance. Allen’s work has been said to extend the
tradition of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and
Ishmael Reed, but he is blazing his own path through American
literature. Fat Time and Other Stories brilliantly shows the range
and depth of his imagination.
General
Imprint: |
Graywolf Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Jeffery Renard Allen
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64445-239-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-64445-239-1 |
Barcode: |
9781644452394 |
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