Clarence Cooper, Jr.
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"So much of what we know of ourselves is a lousy God Damn lie", maintains the narrator of The Farm (1968), the audacious and supercharged final novel by a writer of both prodigal gifts and tendencies toward self-destruction.More
Roland S. Jefferson
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When Dr. Elwin Carter is confronted in his Watts clinic by two boys terrified by the brutal murder of their friend, his investigations lead him far beyond the usual suspicions of drugs or gang violence.More
Donald Goines
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"[Donald] Goines's novels have sold millions of copies in the inner cities (rappers are big fans). Originally published in 1974, this high-profile paperback reprint takes him mainstream. It's about time." --Suzanne Rura, Entertainment WeeklyMore
Robert Deane Pharr
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In this surreal dark comedy, Larry "Giveadamn" Brown is transformed from a country bumpkin into a crime kingpin when he inherits the Harlem dope and numbers empire of his Uncle Harry.More
Chester Himes
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Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmare to dirty, fitful real life in a Harlem slum.More
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
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Black! is part of Norton's Old School Books series of reprinted pulp fiction by black authors.More
Herbert Simmons
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Announcing the launch of Old School Books--a bold and innovative series that rediscovers the greatest (and toughest) African-American writers of our time.More
Charles Perry
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This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.More