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02053aam a2200241 i 4500 001 080C44F2253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 230519s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1644452391 020 $a 9781644452394 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Allen, Jeffery Renard. 245 1 $a Fat Time and Other Stories / $c Jeffery Renard Allen. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b Graywolf Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 288 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 3 $a 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 Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils of fornication in an Italian villa imported to America by Abraham Lincoln; and an albino revolutionary who struggles with leading his people into conflict. The two strands in this brilliant story collection speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once. Here the natural and supernatural, the sacred and the profane, the real and fantastical, destruction and creation are held in delicate and tense balance. Allen's work has been said to extend the tradition of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and Ishmael Reed, but he is blazing his own path through American literature. Fat Time and Other Stories brilliantly shows the range and depth of his imagination. 541 $d 20230621. 650 $a Black people $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231005013431.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230718013404.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=080C44F2253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search