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Them : A Novel by Nathan McCall 2008
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “"Book has minor shelf wear."”
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2000s
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781416549161
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Washington Square Press
ISBN-10
1416549161
ISBN-13
9781416549161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109333850
Product Key Features
Book Title
Them : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Psychological, African American / General, General, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Complex and flawed characters weave a story that tests our own contradictory feelings about gentrification and racial and class bias. A compelling read." -- Erica Simone Turnipseed, author of A Love Noire , Hunger , and the upcoming My Name Is Zanzibar, "Themis a character-driven, insightful novel that gives readers an entertaining and balanced glance at gentrification. Nathan McCall has done a brilliant job of showcasing his talent, while at the same time showing his compassion for human nature." -- Zane,New York Timesbestselling author ofAfterburn, "Nathan McCall's honesty and insight captivated the nation inMakes Me Wanna Holler, and those qualities drive his sure-handed leap to fiction in McCall's beautifully written first novel,Them. With painstaking balance and vivid characters both black and white,Themis a gripping and timely dispatch from the unfolding story of race relations in America. Nathan McCall is a national treasure."-- Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author ofJoplin's GhostandFreedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, "Nathan McCall's debut novel,Them, a mirror of our time and souls, is awesome and destined to become a contemporary classic."-- Eric Jerome Dickey,New York Timesbestselling author, "Complex and flawed characters weave a story that tests our own contradictory feelings about gentrification and racial and class bias. A compelling read." -- Erica Simone Turnipseed, author ofA Love Noire,Hunger, and the upcomingMy Name Is Zanzibar, " Them is a character-driven, insightful novel that gives readers an entertaining and balanced glance at gentrification. Nathan McCall has done a brilliant job of showcasing his talent, while at the same time showing his compassion for human nature." -- Zane, New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn, "Nathan McCall's debut novel, Them , a mirror of our time and souls, is awesome and destined to become a contemporary classic."-- Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times bestselling author, "Nathan McCall's honesty and insight captivated the nation in Makes Me Wanna Holler , and those qualities drive his sure-handed leap to fiction in McCall's beautifully written first novel, Them . With painstaking balance and vivid characters both black and white, Them is a gripping and timely dispatch from the unfolding story of race relations in America. Nathan McCall is a national treasure."-- Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of Joplin's Ghost and Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, "Nathan McCall's honesty and insight captivated the nation in Makes Me Wanna Holler , and those qualities drive his sure-handed leap to fiction in McCall's beautifully written first novel, Them . With painstaking balance and vivid characters both black and white, Them is a gripping and timely dispatch from the unfolding story of race relations in America. Nathan McCall is a national treasure." -- Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of Joplin's Ghost and Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, "What should we write about in our complex and changing world? And how? These are the questions that a writer constantly asks....Nathan McCall masterfully provides us with an answer. His novel could be taken as a model for modern writing." -- Maryse Cond,award-winning author of The Story of the Cannibal Woman, "What should we write about in our complex and changing world? And how? These are the questions that a writer constantly asks....Nathan McCall masterfully provides us with an answer. His novel could be taken as a model for modern writing." -- Maryse Condé,award-winning author of The Story of the Cannibal Woman, "Nathan McCall's debut novel, Them , a mirror of our time and souls, is awesome and destined to become a contemporary classic." -- Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times bestselling author
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
The author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound debut novel -- in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Zadie Smith's White Teeth -- that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities. Nathan McCall's novel, Them , tells a compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro street in the world." The story centers around Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track. When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing -- often frustrating -- conversations over the backyard fence. Members of both households, and their neighbors as well, try to go about their business, tending to their homes and jobs. However, fear and suspicion build -- and clashes ensue -- with each passing day, as more and more new whites move in and make changes and once familiar people and places disappear. Using a blend of superbly developed characters in a story that captures the essence of this country's struggles with the unsettling realities of gentrification, McCall has produced a truly great American novel., The critically-acclaimed and deeply compelling story of what happens to a long-standing African-American neighbourhood in Atlanta when gentrification starts moving in and black and white clash over urban territories. Fear and suspicion build and clashes ensue as more and more whites move into the neighbourhood - bringing changes and making familiar people and places disappear., From the "mesmerizing storyteller" ( The New Yorker ) and author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound novel--in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Zadie Smith's White Teeth-- that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities. Barlowe Reed is a single, forty-something Black American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street in Atlanta, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track. When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing--often frustrating--conversations over the backyard fence. Members of both households, and their neighbors as well, try to go about their business, tending to their homes and jobs. However, fear and suspicion build--and clashes ensue--with each passing day, as more and more new whites move in and make changes and once familiar people and places disappear. Using a blend of superbly developed characters in a story that captures the essence of this country's struggles with the unsettling realities of gentrification, Nathan McCall has produced a truly great American novel., A brilliant debut novel that portrays one urban American neighbourhood in the throes of gentrification.
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