RAILS UNDER MY BACK. With a bookplate signed by the author.

Allen, Jeffrey Renard

ISBN 10: 0374246262 / ISBN 13: 9780374246266

Edité par Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 2000

A propos de cet article

563 pages of text. Hardcover binding. Unclipped dustjacket protected in archival mylar. Bookplate signed by author affixed to front endpaper; from a Heartland Literary Society event. Size: Octavo (8vo).

N° de réf. du vendeur 004354

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: RAILS UNDER MY BACK. With a bookplate signed by the author.
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374246262
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374246266
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Near fine condition
• État de la jaquette: Near fine condition (DJ)
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Autograph & Manuscript

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Synopsis

Book by Allen Jeffrey Renard

Présentation de l'éditeur

A dazzling family saga that brilliantly reflects the reality of the African-American experience in the United States

Hatch and Jesus Jones are cousins on their fathers' side and on their mothers' side, and you can't have a family much more bound than that. And family is the most important entity for these young men, even when family seems to be defined by abandonment. Rails Under My Back traces these two men from one form of bondage or freedom to another, from one job to another, as they face down danger and try to come to terms with their family's past.

This ambitious novel, which has been hailed by critics nationwide as a rare achievement on the level of fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright, is the communal expression of a century of African-American life in America, with its imagery of exodus and exile, departure and destiny. It wields extraordinary literary, religious, and historical power, and announces the triumphant debut of a most powerful and utterly original voice.