| A Visitation of Spirits Contributor(s): Kenan, Randall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375703977 ISBN-13: 9780375703973 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage."--Gloria Naylor Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family. Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin Reverend James "Jimmy" Green questions the values of a community that nourishes a boy, places their hopes for salvation on him, only to deny him his destiny. Told in a montage of voices and memories, A Visitation of the Spirits just how richly populated a family's present is with the spirits of the past and the future. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99042029 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.14" W x 8.12" (0.44 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage." --Gloria Naylor Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family. Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin Reverend James " Jimmy" Green questions the values of a community that nourishes a boy, places their hopes for salvation on him, only to deny him his destiny. Told in a montage of voices and memories, A Visitation of the Spirits just how richly populated a family's present is with the spirits of the past and the future. |