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Synopsis
The theme of abandonment in the African-American family is explored in this novel about two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who marry two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. Tour.
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"A novel of immense power . . . A novel of big ambitions and intense achievements . . . If there is justice in the literary world, this book will make a large mark on the first decade of a new century in American letters."-Elle
"Big, ambitious, picaresque, and beautiful, a book that demands of the reader as much as it gives in return."-San Francisco Chronicle
"A tour de force." --"Chicago Tribune
""Besides Joyce and Faulkner, other twentieth-century novelists whose work Allen's calls to mind are Dos Passos, Ellison and Henry Roth--an indication of the remarkable literary company in which this novel may be seen to move." --"The New York Times Book Review"
A tour de force. "Chicago Tribune"
Besides Joyce and Faulkner, other twentieth-century novelists whose work Allen's calls to mind are Dos Passos, Ellison and Henry Roth--an indication of the remarkable literary company in which this novel may be seen to move. "The New York Times Book Review""
A tour de force. Chicago Tribune
Besides Joyce and Faulkner, other twentieth-century novelists whose work Allen's calls to mind are Dos Passos, Ellison and Henry Roth--an indication of the remarkable literary company in which this novel may be seen to move. The New York Times Book Review
""A tour de force." --Chicago Tribune
"Besides Joyce and Faulkner, other twentieth-century novelists whose work Allen's calls to mind are Dos Passos, Ellison and Henry Roth--an indication of the remarkable literary company in which this novel may be seen to move." --The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Jeffery Renard Allen was born in Chicago in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has lived in New York City and taught at Queens College since the fall of 1992.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0374246262
- ISBN 13 9780374246266
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages563
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