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Fat time : and other stories

Fat time : and other stories

Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- author.
Book 2023

In Fat time : and other stories , Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen's two teenagers in an unnamed big city who stumble through a down-low relationship; an African preacher visits a C...

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ISBN:
9781644452394
Description:
268 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Some of the stories in this collection have been previously published
Contents:
Part 1 : water brought us. Testimonial (Supported in belief/verified in fact)
Fall
Circle
Four girls
Heads
Fat time
Part 2 : water will carry us back. Pinocchio
The lucky ones
Big ugly babies
Orbits
Fornication camp
The next flight
Control Number:
3292996
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