The Kojo Hand

Gatten, Tom

ISBN 10: 0759616159 / ISBN 13: 9780759616158

Edité par 1st Book Library, 2001

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• Titre: The Kojo Hand
• Éditeur: 1st Book Library
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0759616159
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780759616158
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Tom Gatten's The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainlya young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher KojoDedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive socialchange.¿ The story is told from the pointof view of Deanie Hollins, a nineteen-year-old student at a fictionaluniversity on Long Island.¿ The storytakes place in the spring and summer of 1972 and moves forward throughquestions and answers raised by Kojo's possible connection with a coup d' etat in his homeland and byDeanie's part-time work as a model in New York City.JD Reed, Senior Editor, Time Magazine, and author of Free Fall and Pursuit of D. B. Cooper, says of the manuscript: "The Kojo Hand is a wonderful novel.¿ It's a kind of Shane for baby-boomers with a neat twist.¿ Making teacher and student different sexes is a fine touch.¿ Kojo is a truly magnificent character.¿ I wish I'd known him.¿ The cast is great."John Stewart, Professor ofAfrican-American and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, University ofCalifornia, Davis, and author of Last Cool Days, Curving Road, Forthe Ancestors, and Looking for Josephine, says of the manuscript: ". . . the range of experiences and the ways the characters persist in their worldare handled with considerable insight.¿There are some nice things there."Dr. Marcellette G. Williams,Interim Chancellor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, TheUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, says of the manuscript: "Gatten'shandling of his female narrator's point of view is deft and refreshingly'faithful to the grain' (to borrow from Kojo Dedu's phrasing), as ishis handling of the narrator's feelings about love in her relationship with herlover, managing even to 'incorporate the knots into the overalldesign.'

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Tom Gatten's fiction has appeared in such publications as Art and Literature (Lausanne), The Quest (New York), and Tales, formerly Fiction Midwest (St. Louis). His poems have appeared in numerous publications and have been anthologized in The Sumac Reader (The Michigan State University Press, East Lansing), and Earth, Air, Fire & Water (Coward, McCann & Geohegan, New York, and Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto). Mapper of Mists, poems and translations, includes the Spanish of Rafael Alberti.On the author's writing prior to The Kojo Hand: 'I think Tom Gatten's Mapper of Mists is a remarkable book of poems. For years I've been familiar with Gatten's work and here we have it together with a great deal of grace, intensity and energy. 'Riding West on the Window Train,' a long sequence and the core of the book, is especially durable and powerful. --Jim Harrison, whose books include the novels Dalva, Sundog, and Legends of the Fall, and such books of poems as Returning to Earth and The Theory & Practice of Rivers & Other Poems. Tom Gatten was born in north central Nebraska and grew up in southwestern Michigan. He was educated at Michigan State University, the University of the Americas in Mexico City, and the University of Iowa. He played for two years with the Bamboushay Steel Band (Folkways Records LP FS 3835). After Michigan State, he went to the University of Iowa, where he earned an M.F.A. His college teaching credits include Fresno, Stony Brook, Lincoln Land Community College, The University of Hartford and Penn State. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his wife.