The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger by Cecil Brown

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

Cecil Brown

213 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

fiction reflective medium-paced

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"If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides." So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible's prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era ...

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