
Saga Boy
My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Antonio Michael Downing(Author)
Milkweed Editions (Publisher)
Published on 14. September 2021
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-57131-191-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Singularly dazzling . . . A brilliant collage of the twenty-first century's most incredible memoirs." --KIESE LAYMON
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57131-191-7 (9781571311917)
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Person
Antonio Michael Downing is the author of Saga Boy. He grew up in southern Trinidad, northern Ontario, Brooklyn, and Kitchener. He is a musician, writer, and activist based in Toronto. His debut novel, Molasses, was published to critical acclaim. In 2017, he was named by the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada's top emerging authors for nonfiction. He performs and composes music as John Orpheus.