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7208115Lover Manhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/lover-man-9781946022554/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6756900/image.jpg?v=638725766445300000206251MXNMcNally EditionsInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow Southa classic of 1950s Black fiction.</strong></p><p>Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in <em>Lover Man</em> (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s. Fascinated by loners and outsiderstricksters, addicts, jazzmen, drifters, queersand by the spiritual cost exacted by the myths of white supremacy, Anderson assembled an original kind of story collection, whose themes troubled and bewildered many of his early readers. Although later championed by Langston Hughes and Henry Louis Gates. Jr., among others, thishis only collectionhas remained out of print since the 50s.</p><p>In his afterword to this new edition, the literary historian Kinohi Nishikawa investigates Andersons pief but pilliant career, the controversy his work provoked, and the light it sheds on his era.</p>...6859700Lover Man206251https://www.gandhi.com.mx/lover-man-9781946022554/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6756900/image.jpg?v=638725766445300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239781946022554_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_<p><strong>Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow Southa classic of 1950s Black fiction.</strong></p><p>Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in <em>Lover Man</em> (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s. Fascinated by loners and outsiderstricksters, addicts, jazzmen, drifters, queersand by the spiritual cost exacted by the myths of white supremacy, Anderson assembled an original kind of story collection, whose themes troubled and bewildered many of his early readers. Although later championed by Langston Hughes and Henry Louis Gates. Jr., among others, thishis only collectionhas remained out of print since the 50s.</p><p>In his afterword to this new edition, the literary historian Kinohi Nishikawa investigates Andersons pief but pilliant career, the controversy his work provoked, and the light it sheds on his era.</p>...9781946022554_McNally Editionslibro_electonico_9781946022554_9781946022554Kinohi NishikawaInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-daa5b2bf-9daa-4ab1-9226-118569556f7c.epub2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00McNally Editions