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Rails under my back : a novel / Jeffery Renard Allen.
LIBRA PS3551.L393815 R35 2001 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-
- Series:
- Harvest book
- A Harvest book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)
- Physical Description:
- 563 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Rails Under My Back" reveals its family theme in a depiction of its paradoxical opposite: abandonment. Allen tracks the lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. The McShans and the Joneses always prevail, and their story has literary, religious, and historical power.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has ms. inscription: "August 23, 2001 ... To Alane, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Bread Loaf. Keep supporting us writers. Best wishes, Jeff Allen".
- ISBN:
- 0156014157
- 9780156014151
- OCLC:
- 45058796
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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