Rails Under My Back
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Rails Under My Back
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Author : Jeffery Renard Allen
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2015-10-20
Rails Under My Back written by Jeffery Renard Allen and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with Fiction categories.
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." —The Philadelphia Inquirer When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants of twentieth-century modernism. The publication of Allen's equally ambitious second novel, Song of the Shank, cemented those lofty claims. Now, the book that established his reputation is being restored to print in its first Graywolf Press edition. Together, the two novels stand as significant achievements of twenty-first-century literature. Rails Under My Back is an epic that tracks the interwoven lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. For them, their parents, and their children, life is always full of departures; someone is always fleeing town and leaving the remaining family to suffer the often dramatic, sometimes tragic consequences. The multiple effects of the comings and goings are devastating: These are the almost mythic expression of the African American experience in the half century that followed the Second World War. The story ranges, as the characters do, from the city, which is somewhat like both New York and Chicago, to Memphis, to the West, and to many "inner" and "outer" locales. Rails Under My Back is a multifaceted, brilliantly colored, intensely musical novel that pulses with urgency and originality.
Song Of The Shank
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Author : Jeffery Renard Allen
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2014-06-17
Song Of The Shank written by Jeffery Renard Allen and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with Fiction categories.
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere—inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots—who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother. As the novel ranges from Tom's boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him.
From Rail To Road And Back Again
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Author : Colin Divall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
From Rail To Road And Back Again written by Colin Divall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with History categories.
The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Retribution Rails
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Author : Erin Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2017
Retribution Rails written by Erin Bowman and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
My Drowning
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Author : Jim Grimsley
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998-01-27
My Drowning written by Jim Grimsley and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-27 with Fiction categories.
The award-winning author of "Dream Boy" and "Winter Birds" weaves the moving tale of a woman determined to figure out if the visions that haunt her are merely dreams--or nightmares she has lived and forced herself to forget. "Each sentence bristles with equal parts rage and grace".--Kelly McQuain, "The Philadelphia Inquirer".
Iron Rails In The Garden State
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Author : Anthony J. Bianculli
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008
Iron Rails In The Garden State written by Anthony J. Bianculli and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Fascinating stories of New Jersey's rich railroading history
Specifications And Drawings Of Patents Issued From The U S Patent Office
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Author : United States. Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Specifications And Drawings Of Patents Issued From The U S Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
Parliamentary Papers
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Great Britain categories.
Railway Returns For England And Wales Scotland And Ireland
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Author : Great Britain. Board of Trade
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Railway Returns For England And Wales Scotland And Ireland written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Railroads categories.
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction
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Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-14
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-14 with Literary Collections categories.
From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.