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Elbow Room

by MCPHERSON, James Alan

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Condition
Very good +/Very good +
ISBN 10
0316563285
ISBN 13
9780316563284
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. ix, 241 p. 22 cm. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Pultizer Prize label on front cover. Front flap price-clipped. Some offsetting to endpapers. Cracked at p. 239.

Twelve stories about black Americans that explore relations between blacks and whites in the 1960s and 1970s, soon after the rigid social order of the past had broken down. The volume won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

Synopsis

A beautiful collection of short stories that explores modern racial inequity, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer, or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.  

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Bookseller
Attic Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
130067
Title
Elbow Room
Author
MCPHERSON, James Alan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very good +
Jacket Condition
Very good +
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0316563285
ISBN 13
9780316563284
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co.
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1977
Keywords
Literature, Short stories, African Americans, Pulitzer Price, Race relations
Bookseller catalogs
Literature;

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