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Tales
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Tales
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Amiri Baraka
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:160 | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781617753954
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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Imprint |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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Publication Date |
25 February 2016 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
These 16 artful and nuanced stories fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavour to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction - provocative, witty and, at times, bitter and aggressive.
Author Biography
Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1934--2014) was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named poet laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission for the Humanities, from 2002--2004. His short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He is also the author of Home: Social Essays, Black Music, and The System of Dante's Hell, among other works.
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