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Mark V. Ziesing". 1989. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FICTION Science Fiction First Edition""Translate the twelve labors of Hercules into the cultural climate of Northern Mississippi in the 1920s, and while you're there make some true insights into human society of any time--why, only Howard Waldrop would attempt such a thing, and only Waldrop could have the panache to pull it off. A Dozen Tough Jobs should have been written 200 years ago so that it could have received the treatment it deserves: that being carved into stone. Waldrop proves that less is more, by condensing magic, bigotry, love, checkers, guitars, romance, and everything else that makes life...well, life, into a novella that is easily read in one night.I.O. Lace is a young black boy who works for Boss Eustis. Well, work is hardly right. Work for blacks in Mississippi at the time was only a step removed from slavery, and Boss Eustis is a man to be feared. Joining I.O. in his life-once-removed-from-slavery is a man who is a slave: a convict…
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- Title A Dozen Tough Jobs
- Author Howard Waldrop
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mark V. Ziesing, Willimantic, CT
- Date June 1989
- ISBN 9780929480015 / 0929480015
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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