The portable promised land : stories / Touré.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Touré, 1971-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

vi, 256 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Back Bay paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 2003.

Summary:

Welcome to Soul City, the fictional American metropolis where magic is as natural as sunshine and where an astonishing array of flamboyant, wise, and joyful characters celebrate life's simple pleasures and draw strength from each other in hard times. With this inspired collection--in which irreverent humor and sharp-eyed social satire combine to produce unforgettable stories--Toure emerges as one of the most talented and inventive young writers at work today.- A hot new writer who draws--and pleases--crowds, Toure is a powerful performer whose readings are standing-room-only events.- The story "A Hot Time in the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls" won the Sam Adams Story Contest in Zoetrope: All-Story. Toure's writings have also appeared in Best American Essays 1999 and Best American Sports Writing 2000.

Contents:

Prologue

The Steviewondermobile

A hot time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the spectacular final Sunday sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love

The breakup ceremony

The sad, sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, the man with the portable Promised Land

Afrolexicology Today's biannual list of the top fifty words in African-America

Blackmanwalkin

Attack of the love dogma

My history

The playground of the ecstatically blaš

The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, or 101 elements of Blackness (Things that'll make you say: Yes! That there's some really Black shit!)

Solomon's big day : a children's story

It's life and death at the Slush Puppie Open

How Babe Ruth saved my life

We words : my favorite things

Soul City Gazette profile: Crash Jinkins, last of the chronic crashees

A guest!

You are who you kill : the Black Widow story

Young, Black, and unstoppable, or Death of a Zietgeist jockey : the Black Widow prequel and sequel

Once an Oreo, always an Oreo : the Black Widow finale

The commercial channel : a unique business opportunity

Falcon Malone can fly no mo

The Sambomorphosis

They're playing my song

Yesterday is so long ago

Shout-outs.

ISBN:

0316738360

9780316738361

OCLC:

52370415