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By the author of "Let the Dead Bury their Dead", this novel revolves around the history of a black family from the years of slavery to present times. The story focuses on two cousins, one who is a teacher and Baptist preacher and the other who is a brilliant scholar.
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" Randall Kenan continues [James] Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain' by giving voice to the unvarnished truth about blacks and homosexuality." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
" A gifted, confident writer." --"The Raleigh News & Observer"
"Randall Kenan continues [James] Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain' by giving voice to the unvarnished truth about blacks and homosexuality." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A gifted, confident writer." --The Raleigh News & Observer
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" A gifted, confident writer." --"The Raleigh News & Observer"
"Randall Kenan continues [James] Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain' by giving voice to the unvarnished truth about blacks and homosexuality." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A gifted, confident writer." --The Raleigh News & Observer
RANDALL KENAN grew up in Chinquapin, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Columbia University, Duke University, Vassar College, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Memphis, and is now a professor at the University of North Carolina. His collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, was published in 1992 and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among the New York Times Notable Books of 1992. Kenan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Award, and was the 1997 Rome Prize winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2005.
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0349105804
- ISBN 13 9780349105802
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages257
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