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These 16 artful and nuanced stories fall into two parts: the first nine concern themselves with the sensibility of a hip, perceptive young black man in white America. The last seven stories endeavour to place that same man within the context of his awareness of and participation in a rapidly emerging and powerfully felt negritude. They deal, it might be said, with the black man in black America. Yet these tales are not social tracts, but absolutely masterful fiction - provocative, witty and, at times, bitter and aggressive.
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Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (19342014) was the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named poet laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission for the Humanities, from 20022004. His short story collection "Tales of the Out & the Gone" (Akashic Books) was a "New York Times" Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He is also the author of "Home: Social Essays," "Black Music," and "The System of Dante's Hell," among other works."
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- PublisherMacgibbon Kee
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0261618504
- ISBN 13 9780261618503
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.K. Edition. First British edition. In pictorial jacket over black cloth, 8vo, 132pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book. Seller Inventory # 0813452
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Inscribed British First Edition, First Printing of this early collection of short stories by dramatist, poet, and activist Amiri Bakara (LeRoi Jones). Bakara was one of the leading and most provocative Black writers of the 1960s and 1970s. Inscribed by Amiri Bakara to a a previous owner on the half title page. 132 pages, black cloth. The book has some tanning of the page edges. The dust jacket is price clipped and has a bit of foxing. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 014976
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 132 pages; Description: [9], 132 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Short stories, English. Notes: Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 90144
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 132 pages; Description: [9], 132 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Short stories, English. Notes: Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 90144
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