James Alan McPherson
Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow James Alan McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. In a writing career that spans forty years, McPherson has been a ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White
 The complex truth about the color line -- its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure -- is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In [... more]
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Hue and Cry: Stories
Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated, most original writers. McPherson's characters -- gritty, jazzy, authentic, and pristinely rendered -- give voice to unheard [... more]
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Elbow Room
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes the [... more]
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Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of ...
Harvard has played a curiously central role in the American cultural imagination, a role that is fraught with ambiguity. In no part of our society is this more the case than in black America. This important book brings together for the first time two [... more]
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James Alan McPherson
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes ... [... more]
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Hue and Cry: Stories
A CLASSIC WORK: Hue and Cry marks the debut work of James Alan McPherson which is soon to be a classic for all times. In this collection of ten short stories, our author, takes us on a road trip of human frailties and possibilities that are timeless. Way [... more]
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Hue and Cry: Stories
"Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated, most original writers. McPherson's characters -- gritty, jazzy, authentic, and pristinely rendered -- give voice to [... more]
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A1 Books |
A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile
A keen chronicler of the American way of life and culture, and a master at rendering the complexities of the human heart, James Alan McPherson writes about the sublime and the banal events of ordinary life and deftly captures the elusive connections [... more]
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From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American ...
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the [... more]
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Elbow Room
Amazon.com Review: McPherson's second collection of short stories won the Pulitzer Prize, an honor it richly deserved for his fine writing and unique perspective. The range here is astounding: "The Story of a Dead Man," is reminiscent of " [... more]
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Reality in Fiction: The skillful rendering of characters rather than caricatures distinguishes Breece D'J Pancake's one and only book from many other works of contemporary fiction. The stories are set primarily in the hills, small towns, and hollows of [... more]
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