Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights - Paperback

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Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights - Paperback

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights - Paperback

by Susan Straight
$19.53
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Book Overview

"A writer of exceptional gifts and grace." --Joyce Carol Oates

A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him.

A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, Darnell Tucker works part-time as the lone black member of the fire department. Cutbacks to the state budget force him to search for new work, and the low-paying positions he finds rival firefighting in their peril. His path blocked by economics, institutionalized racism, and the dangers of the place he lives, Darnell must find a way to persevere. Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights is a stark and thoroughly convincing portrait of life on the margins.
ISBN9781640093614
Author Susan Straight
PublisherCounterpoint LLC
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages568
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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SUSAN STRAIGHT has published nine novels, including Mecca, A Million Nightingales, and Highwire Moon, and one memoir, In the Country of Women. She's been a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the National Book Award, among other honors, and received the Lannan Prize, the O. Henry Award, the Edgar Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family.

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