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Highlights
- A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor.
- Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 1978 1st Winner
- About the Author: James Alan McPherson (1943-2016) was the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
- 288 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
A beautiful collection that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these 12 stories explor e a world many find difficult to define. "Artful and highly serious".--Newsweek.Book Synopsis
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.Review Quotes
"Twelve deeply felt stories about an extraordinarily various group of black Americans. Mr. McPherson is one of those rare writers who can tell a story describe shadings of character, and make sociological observations with equal subtlety." The New Yorker
About the Author
James Alan McPherson (1943-2016) was the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories appeared in numerous periodicals-- including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and Double-Take--and anthologies such as volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories. McPherson received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award, and was a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City.Dimensions (Overall): 6.84 Inches (H) x 4.22 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Format: Paperback
Author: James Alan McPherson
Language: English
Street Date: October 12, 1986
TCIN: 89236387
UPC: 9780449213575
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-7135
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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