Hue and Cry: Stories (Art of the Story) - Softcover

McPherson, James Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062909738 ISBN 13: 9780062909732

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2019

Synopsis

The classic debut collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson

Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated and most original writers. McPherson's characters -- gritty, authentic, and pristinely rendered -- give voice to unheard struggles along the dividing lines of race and poverty in subtle, fluid prose that bears no trace of sentimentality, agenda, or apology.

First published in 1968, this collection includes the Atlantic Prize-winning story "Gold Coast" (selected by John Updike for the collection Best American Short Stories of the Century). Now with a new preface by Edward P. Jones, Hue and Cry introduced America to McPherson's unforgettable, enduring vision, and distinctive artistry.

About this title

Review:

"A writer of insight, sympathy, and humor and one of the most gifted young Americans I've had the privilege to read."--Ralph Ellison

"An astute realist who knows how to turn the conflicts between individual personalities and the surrounding culture into artful and highly serious comedies of manners."--Newsweek

About the Author:

Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow James Alan McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. In a writing career that spans forty years, McPherson has been a contributor to many publications, including The Atlantic, Esquire, and Playboy, and was the editor of Double Take magazine. He is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. He died in 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0062909738
• ISBN 13: 9780062909732
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304