Alston Anderson

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Lover ManPaperback, 7 February 2023

Lover Man
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
McNally Editions
Date Published
7 Feb 2023
ISBN-10
1946022543
ISBN-13
9781946022547

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Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow South--a classic of 1950s Black fiction.

Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s. Fascinated by loners and outsiders--tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, drifters, "queers"--and by the spiritual cost exacted by the myths of white supremacy, Anderson assembled an original kind of story collection, whose themes troubled and bewildered many of his early readers. Although later championed by Langston Hughes and Henry Louis Gates. Jr., among others, this--his only collection--has remained out of print since the '50s.

In his afterword to this new edition, the literary historian Kinohi Nishikawa investigates Anderson's brief but brilliant career, the controversy his work provoked, and the light it sheds on his era.

Product Details

Author:
Alston Anderson
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 February 2023
Dimensions:
20.83 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
1946022543
ISBN-13:
9781946022547
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Weight:
317.51 gm

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