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Weaving the mythos and the hard realities of rural Black life and easily gliding between past and present, A Visitation of Spirits is a classic novel of growing up from a literary giant.

Produktbeschreibung
Weaving the mythos and the hard realities of rural Black life and easily gliding between past and present, A Visitation of Spirits is a classic novel of growing up from a literary giant.
Autorenporträt
Randall Kenan (1963-2020) was the former chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill. He lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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Praise for Randall Kenan

"Randall Kenan is an American master." -Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

"A genius, our Black Marquez." -Terry McMillan

"A Visitation of Spirits marks the debut of a very gifted writer. Randall Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage about personal and communal strife with the Black community."-Gloria Naylor

"A very daring first novel . . . innovative . . . Randall Kenan has courage and talent to spare."-Chicago Tribune

"Remarkable for its very ambiguities, this stylistically daring novel steers wide of the literature of oppression and uplift, and shares even less with tales of coming-out, in short, an original."-Kirkus Reviews

"Oh, the magic and music Randall Kenan brings to the page."-Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

"A gifted, confident writer."-The Raleigh News and Observer

"Kenan's grasp of his lightly fictionalized home's history, geography, and culture was as keen as Faulkner's."-Slate

"One of America's finest writers."-Southern Review of Books

Praise for Randall Kenan

"Randall Kenan is an American master." -Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

"A genius, our Black Marquez." -Terry McMillan

"A Visitation of Spirits marks the debut of a very gifted writer. Randall Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage about personal and communal strife with the Black community."-Gloria Naylor

"A very daring first novel . . . innovative . . . Randall Kenan has courage and talent to spare."-Chicago Tribune

"Remarkable for its very ambiguities, this stylistically daring novel steers wide of the literature of oppression and uplift, and shares even less with tales of coming-out, in short, an original."-Kirkus Reviews

"Oh, the magic and music Randall Kenan brings to the page."-Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

"A gifted, confident writer."-The Raleigh News and Observer

"Kenan's grasp of his lightly fictionalized home's history, geography, and culture was as keen as Faulkner's."-Slate

"One of America's finest writers."-Southern Review of Books