Fat time and other stories
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Published
Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2023].
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Allen, J.
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Allen, J.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Allen, J.
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Allen, J.
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Published
Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2023].
Format
Book
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268 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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In Fat Time and Other Stories , Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen's two teenagers in an unnamed big city who stumble through a down-low relationship; an African preacher visits a Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils of fornication in an Italian villa imported to America by Abraham Lincoln; and an albino revolutionary who struggles with leading his people into conflict. The two strands in this brilliant story collection speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once. Here the natural and supernatural, the sacred and the profane, the real and fantastical, destruction and creation are held in delicate and tense balance. Allen's work has been said to extend the tradition of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and Ishmael Reed, but he is blazing his own path through American literature. Fat Time and Other Stories brilliantly shows the range and depth of his imagination.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Allen, J. R. (2023). Fat time and other stories . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-. 2023. Fat Time and Other Stories. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-. Fat Time and Other Stories Graywolf Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Allen, Jeffery Renard. Fat Time and Other Stories Graywolf Press, 2023.
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