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A Visitation of Spirits

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ISBN13: 9780375703973
ISBN10: 0375703977
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Publisher Comments:

" 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.

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"Randall Kenan continues [James] Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain' by giving voice to the unvarnished truth about blacks and homosexuality." --San Francisco Chronicle

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"A gifted, confident writer." --The Raleigh News & Observer
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About the Author

Mr. Kenan lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
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ISBN:
9780375703973
Author:
Kenan, Randall
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
North carolina
Subject:
Afro-American families
Subject:
Spirits
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Gay youth
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
African American families
Subject:
African American gays
Subject:
African American teenagers
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
1st Vintage contemporares ed.
Series Volume:
99-367A (Paper copy)
Publication Date:
January 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.12x5.14x.60 in. .44 lbs.
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