Augustown by Kei Miller (2017, Hardcover)

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ISBN
9781101871614
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
110187161X
ISBN-13
9781101871614
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038457524

Product Key Features

Book Title
Augustown : a Novel
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Author
Kei Miller
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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2016-042414
Reviews
"A deceptive spellbinder, a metafiction so disguised as old-time storytelling that you can almost hear the crackle of home fires as it starts. But then it gets you with twists and turns, it seduces and shocks you even as it wrestles with the very nature of storytelling itself. It's the story of women haunted by women, and of the dangers of both keeping secrets and saying too much." -- Marlon James , author of Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings "Augustown is a gorgeously plotted,sharply convincing, achingly urgent novel deserving widespread attention."   --Booklist (starred review) "Miller captures the ways community, faith, and class create a variety of cultural microclimates."   --Kirkus (starred review) "Miller's writing has a cool immediacy [that] gives more than a nod to Garca Mrquez... A vivid modern fable, richly nuanced and empathetic." -- The Guardian   "The language is as clear as spring water, the characters are vividly drawn." -- The Observer   "Miller's storytelling is superb, its power coming from the seamless melding of the magical and the everyday that gives his novel a significant fabular quality." -- The Sunday Times (London)
Table Of Content
·Author's Note· xi ·The Flying Preacherman· 1 ·This Is How It Starts· 117 ·The Autoclaps· 153 ·Thanks· 241
Synopsis
11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?" Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
LC Classification Number
PR9265.9.M553A93

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