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9780151011230 Hardcover
0151011230
$24.00
320pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2005
Territory:
US, O
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Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Before he returns to Mississippi, he will experience up close and personal the women's liberation movement and the dawn of the Lesbian Nation.
Lee Cotton's voice-equal parts Delta Blues and Motown-takes us on an exhilarating freedom ride through America's preoccupation with identity politics. His funny, forgiving charm ultimately embodies a serious message: The freaks and oddities of this world may well be divine.
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CHRISTOPHER WILSON earned his Ph.D. in humor and works as a consulting semiotician. His first novel, Mischief, was short-listed for the Whitbread Award. He lives in London.
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- World Literature
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Gay & Lesbian
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Women's Studies
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Audio to Recorded Books
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First Serial/Second Serial/Reprint/Audio: Harcourt
UK: Time Warner Books UK
Performance/Translation: Curtis Brown Group Ltd.
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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