Jeffery Renard Allen: 3 books
Rails Under My Back
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
**"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...
Holding Pattern
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human.
The...
Song of the Shank
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
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...