Cotton - Softcover

Wilson, MR Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156030454 ISBN 13: 9780156030458

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segre-gated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Before he returns to Mississippi, he will experience up close and personal the women's liberation movement and the dawn of the Lesbian Nation.

Lee Cotton's voice--equal parts Delta Blues and Motown--takes us on an exhilarating freedom ride through America's preoccupation with identity politics. His funny, forgiving charm ultimately embodies a serious message: The freaks and oddities of this world may well be divine.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR COTTON
"Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--TheWashington Post Book World

"[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, People

Book Description:

A brilliant, funny novel about survival and identity in the tradition of Jeff Eugenides' MIDDLESEX.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0156030454
• ISBN 13: 9780156030458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320