Such Was The Season - Softcover

Major, Clarence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916515680 ISBN 13: 9780916515683

Publisher: Mercury House, 1987

Synopsis

In a single week, Annie Eliza of Atlanta deals with a visit from her nephew Juneboy, the decision of her daughter-in-law Renee to run for state senate, an assassination attempt, and a suicide

About this title

About the Author:

Poet, novelist, essayist, anthologist, editor, and lexicographer Clarence Major is one of American literature's most versatile figures. His latest book is a memoir, Come by Here: My Mother's Life. Born in Atlanta, he grew up in Chicago and now teaches modern literature at the University of California, Davis.

From Library Journal:

The title of this novel comes from "November Cotton Flower," a poem by Jean Toomer about a time filled with strange happenings. Similarly, Major focuses on one trouble-filled week in the lives of a black family in Atlanta. Annie Eliza, family matriarch and narrator, finds the happenings around her as fantastic as those on the television soaps she watches religiously. Her memories of black aspirations and suffering in earlier days are moving, but the present goings-on (e.g., a feminist political campaign, a melodramatic illness, a conspiracy to rig tomato prices) are sometimes silly and unconvincing. Annie Eliza displays strength and humor, but many characters and tedious details in the book appear superfluous. Albert E. Wilhelm, English Dept., Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mercury House
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0916515680
• ISBN 13: 9780916515683
• Binding: Paperback