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Allen, Jeffrey Renard
by Rails Under My Back
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374246262
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246266
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About This Item
New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374246262. 563 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An astonishing debut novel, exploring the bonds, boundaries, and bondage of an African American family. Rails Under My Back is a daring work of art that reveals its family theme in a stunning depiction of its paradoxically opposite: abandonment. In this multifaceted, brilliantly colored, intensely musical novel, Jeffery Renard Allen tracks the interwoven lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. For them, their parents, and their children, life is always full of departures; someone is always fleeing town and leaving the remaining family to suffer the often dramatic, sometimes tragic consequences. The multiple effects of the comings and goings are devastating: these are the almost mythic expression of the African American experience during the past half-century. Rails Under My Back ranges, as the characters do, from the City, which is somewhat like both New York and Chicago, to Memphis, to the West, and to many 'inner' and 'outer' locales. One image that holds the family together is that of the railroads taking them from place to place-from the South to the North, from their living to their working quarters, from one form of bondage or freedom to another. The McShans and the Joneses somehow prevail, in their bigger-than-life way, and their story has extraordinary literary, religious, and historical power. Allen's voice is unforgettable. inventory #27839 ISBN: 0374246262.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27839
- Title
- Allen, Jeffrey Renard
- Author
- Rails Under My Back
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374246262
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246266
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000
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