"A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of
short stories by a black writer about real black people."--The New York
Times Book Review
These early writings from award-winning playwright Ed Bullins explore
loneliness and despair in beautifully crafted stories.
Ed Bullins has written numerous plays and fiction, including In the
Wine Time, Goin' a Buffalo, Clara's Ole Man, and The Taking of
Miss Janie, which received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for
Best American Play of the 1974-1975 season. His book of short fiction,
The Hungered One: Early Writings, was originally published in 1971.