Nights in Garden
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There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0670809748
ISBN13:9780670809745
Release Date:October 1986
Publisher:Viking Books
Length:381 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
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Forgotten master
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Harvey Swados is a major talent who seems to have been largely forgotten after his untimely death in 1972. In these longish short stories, Swados demonstrates a mastery of story-telling with great psychological insight into his characters who come from all sorts of backgrounds. A writer with a Jewish background, he is certainly one of the few white writers to write convincingly from the perspective of African-Americans.
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