0374169985. Book and DJ New. Never opened. No names or ANY markings. New DJ not price clipped ($21); Author's 1st book.; 309 pages.

0374169985. Book and DJ New. Never opened. No names or ANY markings. New DJ not price clipped ($21); Author's 1st book.; 309 pages.

0374169985. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. DJ in very nice condition with protective mylar cover.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 309 pages.

0374169985. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. DJ in very nice condition with protective mylar cover.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 309 pages.

First edition. Ex-library copy with glue remnants on the pastedown else very

First edition. Ex-library copy with glue remnants on the pastedown else very good in a very good dust jacket with glue remnants on the verso of the flaps, some toning, and edgewear. Author's first book.

SIGNED BY DARRYL PINCKNEY. First novel that was lavishly praised when it was

SIGNED BY DARRYL PINCKNEY. First novel that was lavishly praised when it was first published. Front flap blurb by Susan Sontag. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. There is a sliver of a damp stain to the top of the front and back pastedown and endsheets which is mirrored the tops of some of the front and back pages. About vg/near fine.

First edition. Foxing on topedge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket

First edition. Foxing on topedge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a crease on the front flap and a tiny nick on the cover. Front flap of dust jacket contains a fourteen-line blurb by Susan Sontag. Author's first book.

New York. 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374169985. 1st Novel. 309 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration-detail from 'Dawn in Harlem' by Winold Reiss. keywords: African American Literature America. DESCRIPTION-What is blackness? Is it an enduring legacy based on the truth of struggle, handed down from generation to generation? Or is it socially defined and hence ever-changing? The unnamed narrator of Darryl Pinckney's pointed, hilarious, and provocative novel raises this existential question again and again as he searches for an authentic model for being himself. HIGH COTTON evokes a world that has not often been written about before, and never with such acuity and finesse. It is the world of upper-middle-class blacks, of ‘nice Negroes, ' ‘upper shadies' obsessed with light skin and good hair, exponents of Negro Firsterism and pride in Negro achievement that sometimes turns out to be hypocrisy. Our hero's bumpy progress takes him from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis to integration and adolescent Anglophilia, to a brief tenure as minister of information in a local radical organization; later, after student wanderings in Harlem and a tour of duty among the urban proletariat, he gets a taste of the expatriate life in Paris. Yet somehow, as he encounters and tries on various contemporary styles of blackness across the social spectrum, the narrator's imagination is increasingly dominated by the powerful figures of his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the ‘Old Country' of the South-especially his eccentric and incorruptible preacher grandfather Eustace. Rich in irony, powerfully scenic, and inhabited by indelible characters, HIGH COTTON is a brilliant book, elegant, insightful, and remarkably sustained-a debut that establishes Darryl Pinckney as a major writer. inventory #25621.

Book. Inscribed by Author(s)

Book. Inscribed by Author(s)