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IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 16016More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Ex-library with only a few markings, overall tight and clean in a fine dj.
Book ID: 18257More details Price: $16.50 -
AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Catapult, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. A collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds - in a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, the Lizzie Borden story in Fall River or a crowded bus in Haiti. Among the many writers he discusses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and more. SIGNED on the title page. Author and title index. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1936787258.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 86047More details Price: $25.00
