Rails Under My Back
by Allen,Jeffery Renard
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0965240126
- ISBN 13
- 9780965240123
- Seller
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Englewood, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
A dazzling family saga that brilliantly reflects the reality of the African-American experience in the United States Hatch and Jesus Jones are cousins on their fathers' side and on their mothers' side, and you can't have a family much more bound than that. And family is the most important entity for these young men, even when family seems to be defined by abandonment. Rails Under My Back traces these two men from one form of bondage or freedom to another, from one job to another, as they face down danger and try to come to terms with their family's past. This ambitious novel, which has been hailed by critics nationwide as a rare achievement on the level of fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright, is the communal expression of a century of African-American life in America, with its imagery of exodus and exile, departure and destiny. It wields extraordinary literary, religious, and historical power, and announces the triumphant debut of a most powerful and utterly original voice.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 275339
- Title
- Rails Under My Back
- Author
- Allen,Jeffery Renard
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0965240126
- ISBN 13
- 9780965240123
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 2000/01/01 00:00:00.000
- Pages
- 563
- Keywords
- Allen,Jeffery Renard Rails Under My Back
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.