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Synopsis
David Bradley's celebrated novel about a black man's search for his past was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best novels of 1981. It was also the winner of the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Sometimes you can hear the wire, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation."
Industry Reviews
"Brutal, spectacular, discursive, academic, dense, polemic and, ultimately, brilliant....Perhaps the most significant work by a new male black author since James Baldwin dazzled the early '60s with his fine fury."
Los Angeles Times - Art Seidenbaum (04/08/1981)
"Beautifully rendered and wildly adventurous."
New York Times Book Review (05/12/1981)
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