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Fat Time and Other Stories - Softcover

Allen, Jeffery Renard

 
9781644452394: Fat Time and Other Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1644452391 ISBN 13: 9781644452394
Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S., 2023

Inhaltsangabe

* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION *

A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future

"A potentially transformative exhibition of visionary storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews, *Starred*

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 preachervisits a Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils of fornication in an Italian villa importedto 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN is the author of the novel Rails Under My Back and two collections of poetry. Allen was born and raised in Chicago. He teaches creative writing at Queens College/CUNY, and his awards include a Whiting Award.

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Verlag
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1644452391
ISBN 13 
9781644452394
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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