Walking on Water - by Randall Kenan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead" comes a profoundly moving and provocative account--both timely and enduring--of the thinking, the feelings, and the lives of African-Americans in the nineties.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --<i>Times-Picayune</i> <p/>From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist <b>Let the Dead Bury Their Dead</b> comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century. <p/>In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life. We meet a Republican congressman and an AIDS activist; a Baptist minister in Mormon Utah and an ambitious public-relations major in North Dakota; militant activists in Atlanta and movie folks in Los Angeles. The result is a marvellously sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A masterwork....Pulsates with the multilayered rhythms of an epic."--<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Fascinating, maddening, illuminating, and revelatory....Novelists would commit murder for material this juicy and topical." --<i>The Village Voice</i> <p/>"A work of insight and compassion." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>Randall Kena<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Randall Kenan lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
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