An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his
High Cotton: A Novel
โ Scribed by Pinckney, Darryl
- Book ID
- 109209458
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781466809970
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โฆ Synopsis
An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
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