A black youth in rural Kansas of the 1920's must make a difficult decision after he witnesses a murder
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"Gordon Parks has made a real world...with characters as lusty, humorous, tragic and impelling as those of Faulkner, Williams or Steinbeck".
Bangor Daily News
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography, including The Learning Tree and A Choice of Weapons. He received a plethora of honorary degrees and awards, including the National Medal of Arts. He was also a film director and composer, and wrote the music and libretto for Martin, a ballet honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP102659317
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0060132809I5N11
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0060132809I5N11
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket has significant surface wear, edge wear, chips on corners, tears head/tail of spine, soiling on rear, price clipped, old tape repairs on rear of dj - quite well done - G+ or VG-. Black cloth boards are a little dusty on the edges, lightly rubbed corners, spine text worn, sunned and worn head/tail. Interior is clean, first edition (G-N) July 1963 printing. Photographer/director/author Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical novel gives us a deeply personal look at life in the Jim Crow era. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. Seller Inventory # 14029
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 303 pages ; 22 cm LCCN 63016528 LC PS3566.A73 ISBN: 9780060132804, 0060132809 ; Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s-particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans-and in glamour photography. ; Newt is a young Negro boy growing up in Kansas, part of a large and wholly believable family. In the 1920s as he enters his teens in the racially segregated small town, events involving a group of delinquents and a cyclone are as dramatic as life gets.The family and their relations with each other and with whites are convincing. The novel observes the daily, less dramatic events that surround and involve Newt and his family with clear eyes, and is warm, well-written, and very much alive. Autobiographical novel by famed photographer Gordon Parks. ; "A Harper find"--Dust jacket ; FINE/FINE. Book. Seller Inventory # 010272