Soul City - Softcover

Toure

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312425163 ISBN 13: 9780312425166

Publisher: Picador USA, 2005

Synopsis

Visiting the seemingly peaceful and culturally rich community of Soul City during a magazine assignment, journalist Cadillac Jackson follows a hostile mayoral election and falls in love with a woman who challenges him to rethink his African-American identity. A first novel. Reprint.

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Synopsis

Welcome to Soul City, where roses bloom in the cracks of the sidewalk along Cornbread Boulevard, musical genres become political platforms and children use their pocket money to buy records from the Vinyl Man. It's an unusually peaceful and magical community with a strong heritage and sense of unity - at least that's how journalist Cadillac Jackson first finds it. When Jackson visits Soul City on a magazine assignment, a mayoral election is imminent and candidates from opposing parties are battling to control the city's soundtrack. Amidst the increasingly hostile campaign, Cadillac falls for Mahogany Sunflower, a beautiful Soul Citizen, and begins a struggle to shed his embattled Black American identity he's been taught to adopt. What he discovers reveals as much about himself as it does about human nature and the meaning of race in America.

About the Author

Touré is the author of the story collection The Portable Promised Land. He's also CNN's pop culture correspondent and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Tennis Magazine, The Best American Essays, The Best American Sportswriting, The Best American Erotica, and DaCapo Best American Music Writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312425163
• ISBN 13: 9780312425166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184