Scissors, Paper, Rock
A Novel
Published on 9. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-0-8131-6656-8 (ISBN)
Description
Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lexington
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8131-6656-8 (9780813166568)
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E-Book
07/2020
The University Press of Kentucky
€18.18
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Persons
Fenton Johnson is the author of award-winning fiction and literary nonfiction, including the novels Scissors, Paper, Rock and The Man Who Loved Birds, as well as Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, USA and teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville.