Grant Park
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A novel as significant as it is engrossing." -Booklist, starred review
Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative...
Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative...
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"A novel as significant as it is engrossing." -Booklist, starred reviewGrant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories.
Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras. Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication.
While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint?while simultaneously dealing with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a 60s activist?Toussaint is abducted by two white supremacists plotting to explode a bomb at Barack Obama's planned rally in Chicago's Grant Park. Toussaint and Carson are forced to remember the choices they made as young men, when both their lives were changed profoundly by their work in the civil rights movement.
Autoren-Porträt von Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in addition to many other awards. He is the author of the novels Grant Park , Freeman , Before I Forget, and several works of nonfiction. Born and raised in Southern California, Pitts now lives in suburban Washington, D.C.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Leonard Pitts
- 2016, 408 Seiten, Maße: 14,3 x 21,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sellers Publ.
- ISBN-10: 1572842016
- ISBN-13: 9781572842014
Sprache:
Englisch
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