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One kind favor : a novel / Kevin McIlvoy.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.C369 O54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIlvoy, Kevin, 1953-2022, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching--Fiction.
- Lynching.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Hate crimes--Fiction.
- Hate crimes.
- Murder--Fiction.
- Murder.
- North Carolina--Fiction.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa, CA : WTAW Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Based loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014, One Kind Favor explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord, North Carolina, the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker, the groundbreaking literary icon, engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of One Kind Favor, Kevin McIlvoy's sixth novel, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will, at last, have their way.
- ISBN:
- 9781732982031
- 1732982031
- OCLC:
- 1253691767
- Publisher Number:
- 99989955264
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