**Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!** A _**Chicago Tribune**_ Noteworthy Fiction Pick for 2013 "Allen's concise book's power lies within its understated irony, never more heavy-handed than a preacher's admonition that 'a world without mans is a world without us all.'
Every Boy Should Have a Man
โ Scribed by Preston L. Allen
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1617751626
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โฆ Synopsis
Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Fiction Pick for 2013
"Allen's concise book's power lies within its understated irony, never more heavy-handed than a preacher's admonition that 'a world without mans is a world without us all.' The plain narrative and relationship between boy and female man, rounded out with humor and occasional (sometimes literal) bite, promises to be a sleeper favorite among speculative audiences."
--Publishers Weekly
"Allen...throws caution to the wind with his bizarre but exquisitely composed fable that uses transhumanism as the prism to reflect on the nature of humanity...It's also intellectually curious and rather cutting in many of its conceptual and cultural assessments. It's a world where man is not only pet, but also meat, where religion, wars and empires are just as backward as they are in our own world, and where worlds collide with a...
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