The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable of taking up the burden of running his church from the larger-than-life figure who is his father. He is haunted both by his own, shameful history of "passing" as a white man in college, and by the prospects for his people in the harsh, new, racist age he fears the world is entering. Malcolm Little -- better known as Malcom X -- is a teenage hustler from Lansing, Michigan by way of Boston, a young man on the make, trying always to be something...
The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable ...
"The Big Crowd is nothing short of a modern masterpiece." Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
Tom O Kane has always looked up to his brother, Charlie, latching onto him as a surrogate father as soon as he arrived in America from County Mayo. Charlie is the American Dream personified: an immigrant who worked his way up from beat cop to mayor of New York. But what if Charlie isn t as wonderful as he seems?
More than a decade after Tom arrives in New York, he is forced to confront the...
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"The Big Crowd is nothing short of a modern masterpiece." Steven Galloway, author of ...
In this clever collection of essays, the author has a direct conversation with God and learns the meaning of life, or something close to it. Over the course of six chapters, the reader is taken through twists and turns, from the metaphysical to the hysterical and back again. Similar to anyone who has pondered the question of her existence, this written dialogue between the author and his Holiness will make you laugh, make you smile, make you think, and quite possibly raise more questions where there are no definitive answers. This is a clever piece that attempts the big questions along the...
In this clever collection of essays, the author has a direct conversation with God and learns the meaning of life, or something close to it. Over the ...
