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Blacker than a thousand midnights
- Title
- Blacker than a thousand midnights / Susan Straight.
- Author
- Straight, Susan.
- Publication
- New York : Hyperion, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.T6795 B57 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 388 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Named one of the outstanding novels of 1992 by Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and USA Today, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots established Susan Straight as one of America's foremost chroniclers of African-American life. In Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, she fulfills the promise of the earlier book, and reintroduces readers to the inhabitants of fictional Rio Seco, California.
- This is the story of Darnell Tucker, and black firefighter and workingman trying to work the toughest turf of all: the straight and narrow. As his friends disappear around him - victims of the streets, of police dogs, of drugs, of an addiction to cheap thrills and guns - Darnell struggles to establish his own business, facing a thousand midnights before he's home free, with a job that supports his young family.
- Yet even as he gains a tentative sense of self, Darnell Tucker is drawn to the destructive beauty of fires, and to the wilder, untamed forces beyond the structure of domesticity. This search for balance in a dangerous world propels the quiet heroism of a beautifully evoked and very moving story.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 0786860030 :
- LCCN
- 93030432
- OCLC
- ocm28722032
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries