Faith And the Good Thing - Softcover

Johnson, Charles Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452266904 ISBN 13: 9780452266902

Verlag: Penguin, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Johnson Charles

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Reseña del editor

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing". Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.

Biografía del autor

Dr. Charles Johnson, a 1998 MacArthur fellow, is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. His fiction includes Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452266904
• ISBN 13: 9780452266902
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208