Elbow Room Mass market paperbound - 1986
by James Alan McPherson
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.
About this book
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.
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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.
First Edition Identification
Little, Brown & Co. published the First US Edition, First Printing in Boston, 1977.
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- Title Elbow Room
- Author James Alan McPherson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett Books, New York
- Date 1986-10-12
- ISBN 9780449213575 / 0449213579
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.84 x 4.22 x 0.8 in (17.37 x 10.72 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social life and customs, United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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