Tragic Magic
Published on 13. March 2025
224 pages
978-1-917092-01-2 (ISBN)
Description
Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth - a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.Back in New York, hungry for freedom and desperate for companionship, Mouth quickly finds himself haunted by his past.Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we see Mouth's time in prison, his college days and, finally, his earliest high school days. Each street corner, subway ride and run-in with an old flame brings with it the echo of his previous life. The rhythm of blues and jazz is baked into each page, with the sounds of the city - barbershop talk, lively gossip, overheard conversations - imprinted in every word.Wesley Brown boldly explores magnetic representations of Black masculinity in crisis, with a style that's even more provoking than its subject.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-917092-01-2 (9781917092012)
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