| Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Contributor(s): Kenan, Randall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156505150 ISBN-13: 9780156505154 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: These 12 stories--at once down to earth and fantastical, tragic and hilarious--are about blacks and whites, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated. "He (Kenen) weaves myth, folktales, magic and reality like no one else I know".--Terry McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale. A New York Times Notable Book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Southern |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91036179 |
| Series: Harvest American Writing |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Nothing short of a wonder-book."--New York Times Book Review This remarkable collection of twelve short stories is about the diverse folk--black and white, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated--who live in the eastern North Carolina town of Tims Creek. Among the memorable characters are Clarence Pickett, who at age three began receiving messages from beyond the grave and whose gift seems tied to a hog's ability to talk; matronly Ida Perry, haunted by a boy her judge husband may have drowned years before; Dean Williams, hired to seduce the richest black man in Times Creek, yearning after innocence while he betrays love. |