Summer Games - Softcover

Woodson, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530257263 ISBN 13: 9781530257263

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

It is 1932 and America is circling the drain. An army of desperate veterans has surrounded the Capitol, strikes dot the map, and breadlines are a common sight. To lighten the national mood the 10th Olympic Summer Games beckon from sunny, dazzling, otherworldly Los Angeles. Four young black sophisticates from Washington, D.C. decide to make the road trip despite the violent racial climate. A vivid assortment of characters, a beautiful racketeer, a moral philosopher, a ruthless mastermind, an ambitious religious leader, and a government agent cross paths with the little band of reckless adventurers as they try to reconcile their personal ambitions with the hypocrisy and failure of modern life. Summer Games is a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary ambition, geopolitical intrigue, and self-realization.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Woodson is a creative writer and independent scholar living in Providence, RI. He published Endowed, a comic novel in 2012. He is the author of four critical studies: Oragean Modernism: a lost literary movement, 1924-1953 (2013); Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (2011); To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (1999); and A Study of Catch-22: Going Around Twice (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530257263
• ISBN 13: 9781530257263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356