Tragic magic a novel
Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's first day on...
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Random House
1978
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's first day on the outside. Although hungry for freedom and desperate for female companionship, Ellington is haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of those choices leading up to this day. Through a filmic series of flashbacks the novel revisits Ellington's prison experiences, where he is forced to play the unwilling patsy to the predatorial Chilly and the callow pupil of the not-so-predatorial Hardknocks; then dips further back to Ellington's college days where again he takes second stage to the hypnotic militarism of the Black Pantheresque Theo, whose antiwar politics incite the impressionable narrator to oppose his parents and to choose imprisonment over conscription; and finally back to his earliest high school days where we meet in Otis the presumed archetype of Ellington's "tragic magic" relationships with magnetic but dangerous avatars of black masculinity in crisis. --biography.jrank.org Join Melvin “Mouth” Ellington as he leaves prison and sets out on a personal quest through New York City. Trying to make sense of the post-1960s world, Ellington revisits his checkered past and struggles to find a new life. Along the way, this generous, beautiful novel explores race, history, violence, and manhood. All in a powerful, legendary first novel, now back in print and ready to inspire a new generation. “A walk through the recent history of black masculinity.” – Mat Johnson (from the Introduction) |
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| Beschreibung: | 169 S. |
| ISBN: | 0394502248 0-394-50224-8 |