Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Akashic Books, 2016
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781617754142 MWT12328099, 1617754145 12328099
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
With a new introduction by Woodie King Jr. This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet's skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul--lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive
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