Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States ...
A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth centuryIt is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those ...
A middle grade novel telling the story of Maggie Blue, an outsider both at home and at school, who sees a fellow classmate stolen through a window to another world by a wolf, and becomes determined to save her whatever the cost.
