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I Can't Wait on God - Hardcover

French, Albert

 
9780385483643: I Can't Wait on God

Synopsis

Compared to James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison in the wake of his acclaimed debut novel, Billy, the author follows an African-American couple who flees Pittsburgh in the summer of 1950 after an entanglement with a pimp turns deadly.

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About the Authors

Albert French served four years in the U.S. Marines and later worked as a medical photographer and photojournalist. He is the founder of the Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, as well as the author of two previous novels, Billy and Holly, and the memoir Patches of Fire. He lives in Pittsburgh.


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Albert French created the Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, which he published until August 1988.

From the Inside Flap

joys and familiar despair of poor, back-alley life in postwar Pittsburgh have a hold on most people there. Still, there are those who need to escape. Jeremiah Henderson and his woman, Willet Mercer, who keep to themselves and look far too pretty for their own good, have set their sights on New York City. As they learn, however, making good is easier said than done. Left with no choice but to give in to the pimp who'd like to try Willet on for size before selling her to his clientele, Jeremiah and Willet try to focus on the future. But in the last moments before letting the pimp have his way with her, Willet balks, stabbing him to death in the back of his parked Buick. If they are both horrified by what she's done, Jeremiah and Willet are nonetheless now flush with the pimp's fat wad of cash, his heavy rings, and his fancy car. And for a moment, it looks as if their dreams may finally come true. With New York on their minds and Pittsburgh behind them, they drive south to make one last stop outside Wilm

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