Gil Scott-Heron

The Vulture & The Nigger Factory (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Vulture & The Nigger Factory
Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron's highly successful two novels from the early Seventies are packaged together for the first time. Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high. The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller. Relating the story of John Lee's murder through the words of four men, the reasons behind the death of the teenager slowly begin to emerge.

The Nigger Factory is a scornful statement on the way in which human beings are conditioned to think. On the campus of Sutton University, Virginia, the students are trying to carry forth the message of reconstruction to a university resistant to change. The failure of Sutton to embrace the changing attitudes of the Sixties has necessitated extreme action and the revolution is nigh.

'With the pace of cleanly constructed thrillers they wield the force of a highly focused political consciousness... the clash of voices gives them a potency, both political and literary, which has survived changes in fashion.' The Herald

'There's plenty of tension and sex, but also a whole heap of politics. These are ace period pieces.' Select
'The books are drenched with the dark overtones of America's underworld, battered by the storms of politics and race. They are as sexy as they are psychotic.' City Life

'[The Vulture is] a tense and intriguing murder mystery. Scott-Heron creates a fascinating portrait of late 60s New York.' Mojo

'[The Nigger Factory] is biting social satire.' Daily Express

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676443
• Artikelnr.: 38358208

Autorenporträt

GIL SCOTT-HERON was born in Chicago in 1949. He has been opening eyes, minds and souls for thirty years. A highly influential and widely admired singer, proto-rapper, jazz pianist, published poet, novelist and socio-political commentator, Scott-Heron remains a unique and major figure in global music. With over fifteen albums to his name, his politically charged output has won him an international following. His work illuminates a philosophy of life that holds human affection as well as political and artistic responsibility as the underlying factors that inspire his writing