Song of the shank a novel
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and bla...
| Main Author: | Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
2014.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page [4] of cover. |
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| Physical Description: |
570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570). |
| ISBN: |
1555976808 (paperback) 9781555976804 (paperback) |
| Author Notes: |
Jeffery Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places and Harbors and Spirits, and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back, which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, and the story collection Holding Pattern, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His other awards include a Whiting Writer's Award, a support grant from Creative Capital, The Chicago Public Library's Twenty-first Century Award, a Recognition for Pioneering Achievements in Fiction from the African American Literature and Culture Association, the 2003 Charles Angoff award for fiction from The Literary Review, and special citations from the Society for Midlands Authors and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. He has been a fellow at The Dorothy L. and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, a John Farrar Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Walter E. Dakins Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. In 2015 he was named a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his title Song of the Shank. (Bowker Author Biography) |