Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade.14965 14965--SIGNED

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade.14965 14965--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON END PAGE; with inscription. "To O. Victory is assured. (sig. in full) From one of America's most iconoclastic and brilliant social critics comes an unforgettable first novel that tells the story of a seven-year interracial romance. with the pages as his bandstand, crouch is a jazz musician, and his gig is personal and territorial identity. crouch blows a charlie parker kind of story of reversal of a white woman who could be said to be acting black, a switch from the familiar accusation of blacks acting white. carla hamsun has a big boody (boody is crouch's word for what beyonce calls booty), a black woman's boody, and carla sings jazz and carla has a black lover, her third, maxwell davis, tenor saxophone's traditional continuation of ben webster, lester young, john coltrane and sonny rollins, and carla can cook collards and chitlins. all to the good for her man, max, until carla, former ice queen from south dakota, sniffs something funky with their relationship: max is distancing himself from their five year duet after hearing the big band screaming a sound of: hi de hi de ho, what you doing with that white girl? come on back home to your own. and so they both journey. like homer's ulysses, carla travels down the rivers of memory and on a trip to houston with max to visit his parents and on a night singing and hanging out with friends, the end of the evening endured by this white woman listening to black intellectuals spew more self race hating vitriol than the entire gangsta rap industry, concluding with her being by her lonesome, like homer's penelope, waiting for her ulysses to come home from an overseas gig. but this is carla's story with the colors of the national spectrum, new york city and south dakota and houston, with a side trip to connecticut, seen through carla's eyes and insides, and max, although her lover man, a co-star with less face time. (reader review)

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..; . Hardcover. Pantheon, 2000. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near

..; . Hardcover. Pantheon, 2000. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box.

0375409327 Very good in Very good creased dust jacket. First Edition. Free tracking USA. Quality, Value, Experience.

0375409327 Very good in Very good creased dust jacket. First Edition. Free tracking USA. Quality, Value, Experience.