Let the dead bury their dead and other stories / Randall Kenan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenan, Randall, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

North Carolina--Social life and customs--Fiction.

North Carolina.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992.

Contents:

Clarence and the dead (and What do They Tell You, Clarence? And the Dead Speak to Clarence)

Things of this world; or Angels unawares

The foundations of the earth

The origin of whales

Cornsilk

The strange and tragic ballad of Mabel Pearsall

This far; or A body in motion

Run, mourner, run

What are days?

Ragnarök! The Day the Gods Die

Tell me, tell me

Let the dead bury their dead.

Notes:

Designed by Trina Stahl.

Jacket illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews.

Lambda Literary Award, 1992

Ferro Grumley Award, 1993

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Kenan, Randall. Let the dead bury their dead and other stories.

ISBN:

0151498865

9780151498864

OCLC:

24502523