Picture 1 of 1
Gallery
Picture 1 of 1
Have one to sell?
Rebel Yell: A Novel, Randall, Alice, 9781608192359
US $12.61
ApproximatelyS$ 16.36
Condition:
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Shipping:
Free Economy Shipping.
Located in: Dallas, Texas, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Wed, 3 Dec and Tue, 9 Dec to 94104
Returns:
60 days return. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Coverage:
Read item description or contact seller for details. See all detailsSee all details on coverage
(Not eligible for eBay purchase protection programmes)
Shop with confidence
About this item
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:336317789470
Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781608192359
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1608192350
ISBN-13
9781608192359
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84465246
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rebel Yell
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
With Rebel Yell , we enter the world of a cosmopolitan black elite, halfway between the characters of Stephen Carter's old Gold Coast families of D.C. and Dorothy West's of Martha's Vineyard, anchored with stirrings of Toni Morrison's Love . Randall's characters hail from old Nashville with its rich civil rights history and social clubs. Weaved into this complicated world of politics, race and class, is a tale of love, hope, and redemption. Alice Randall is a southern writer with an international trajectory and this novel confirms her place at the forefront of African-American novelists., But the real importance of Rebel Yell is as a critique aimed somewhere between the personal and the collective. Randall isn't looking to tear down one man, nor is she content with sawing off a mere branch of the black political spectrum. What she delivers is nothing less than a report on a sentiment that most blacks of the post-civil rights era likely--though few as baldly as Jones--silently entertain: the urge, in the face of the residual power of white America and the open hand it offers to blacks, to turn one's back on his past, to decline the challenge of straddling one, two, many cultures. With Obama now offering a light out of that particular tunnel, Randall's book could not be better timed. Rebel Yell should be heatedly debated by both blacks and whites. If it is, Randall will have done more than write a good book--she will have contributed significantly to the next chapter in the saga of black America., [Randall] successfully creates a family that's been torn apart and haphazardly put back together by forces sometimes terrifying, sometimes hopeful., Alice Randall has written a powerful twenty-first-century novel of mourning. Brimming with history from the tumultuous Kennedy era and Civil Rights Movement to the present global moment, Rebel Yell mourns extensive losses, not just of bodies--those who died or of those who survived and at what costs--but primarily of idealism and activism for love and justice whether in racial, marital, political, or social relations. Writing with razor-smart humor to puncture the sadness and mystery at the center, Randall delivers up an exquisite meditation on physical and psychological lives lived and lost in arenas often considered beyond black people, whether in emotional feeling or in material fact. Both a political novel of intrigue in the Foreign Service and its residue in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib and a protest novel against the violence done from Little Rock to Birmingham and its legacy in America's black elite, Rebel Yell moves with conviction and courage through the complex world that was to the unresolved world that is still becoming., Captivating...the book is a veritable feast of black culture: Randall stacks her pages full of surprises---history lessons, choice bits about artists, poets and musicians, vignettes of the "black bougie" lives Hope and Abel led., Rebel Yell is a powerful and compelling novel about racial and regional identity, about marriage and about the ways in which the social and cultural upheavals of the sixties continue to reverberate through the American subconscious., Shunning readily available explanations for the post-Sixties civil rights-era emergence of such a man as Abel, Randall bypasses the published autobiographies and other public statements of prominent black men...Instead, the novelist utilizes the longterm relationship between Hope and Abel to present lives of such profound complexity that only a writer of Randall's skill and experience could succeed in revealing the psychological bases for the emergence of an apparently anomalous Abel Jones. Rebel Yell is at once a novel of restless movement and great psychological depth... Randall excels at humor and pathos and makes a most powerful and provocative social statement., In Rebel Yell Alice Randall helps us understand that black and white, more than a definition of contrasting colors, and more than a means of identifying two races, is the sum of our dark past, our glowing present and our bright future., Alice Randall has given us Hope. And Hope helps us understand that black and white, more than a definition of contrasting colors, and more than a means of identifying two races, is the sum of our dark past, our glowing present and our bright future., "[Randall] successfully creates a family that's been torn apart and haphazardly put back together by forces sometimes terrifying, sometimes hopeful."--Publishers Weekly "Randall moves masterfully between past and present and between Nashville, Washington, D.C., Manila, and Rome to present an intriguing portrait of a young black couple struggling with racial identity and expectations...Randall demonstrates, with delicious imagery and a sense of racial irony, a love for history's forgotten and overlooked."--Booklist(starred review) "Alice Randall'sRebel Yell(Bloomsbury) addresses race, class, backroom politics, and family intrigue through the intellectual yet heart-smart lens of Harvard-educated African American Hope Jones Blackshear. Traveling between her native Nashville and Rome, Blackshear faces down facts and fictions of her own past that parallel the tumult of Americas first postmillenial decade."--Elle"Rebel Yelloffers a rich journey through the world of distinguished graduates of Southern black colleges, black fraternities and sororities, Jack and Jill societies, Ivy League institutions and summer vacations at Martha's Vineyard -- the world, in short, of a black elite whose lives are only dimly glimpsed by many Americans...Rebel Yellraises the intriguing possibility that something went badly awry with some of the children who came of age during the most terror-ridden years of the civil rights movement.Rebel Yellis chock-full of such possible lines of development...Part detective story, part love story,Rebel Yellis a novel deeply suffused with nostalgia and mourning."--WashingtonPost "[Rebel Yell] will make you laugh, yell (a little), and think (a lot)."--Essence "Captivating...the book is a veritable feast of black culture: Randall stacks her pages full of surprises---history lessons, choice bits about artists, poets and musicians, vignettes of the "black bougie" lives Hope and Abel led."--AtlantaJournal Constitution"WithRebel Yell, we enter the world of a cosmopolitan black elite, halfway between the characters of Stephen Carter's old Gold Coast families of D.C. and Dorothy West's of Martha's Vineyard, anchored with stirrings of Toni Morrison'sLove. Randall's characters hail from old Nashville with its rich civil rights history and social clubs. Weaved into this complicated world of politics, race and class, is a tale of love, hope, and redemption. Alice Randall is a southern writer with an international trajectory and this novel confirms her place at the forefront of African-American novelists."--T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, author ofPimps Up, Ho's Down"WithRebel Yell, Alice Randall proves herself to be one of the bravest and insightful writers of her generation. This is a novel of ideas--brimming with high concepts and complicated philosophical questions. At the same time, it is a novel full of heart. It's about love gone right, and love gone wrong. It's also a history of a family as well as a history of a people and the history of a nation. This novel itself if the yell of a rebel--Alice Randall--as she once again claws at the shell of our dearest-held myths and shows the world what's inside."--Tayari Jones, author ofLeaving AtlantaandThe Untelling"This elegant monument to our, Alice Randall's Rebel Yell (Bloomsbury) addresses race, class, backroom politics, and family intrigue through the intellectual yet heart-smart lens of Harvard-educated African American Hope Jones Blackshear. Traveling between her native Nashville and Rome, Blackshear faces down facts and fictions of her own past that parallel the tumult of Americas first postmillenial decade., moves masterfully between past and present and between ...Randall demonstrates, with delicious imagery and a sense of racial irony, a love for history's forgotten and overlooked., With Rebel Yell , Alice Randall proves herself to be one of the bravest and insightful writers of her generation. This is a novel of ideas--brimming with high concepts and complicated philosophical questions. At the same time, it is a novel full of heart. It's about love gone right, and love gone wrong. It's also a history of a family as well as a history of a people and the history of a nation. This novel itself if the yell of a rebel--Alice Randall--as she once again claws at the shell of our dearest-held myths and shows the world what's inside., As good as [her previous] books are, they've just paved the way for Randall's latest, an innovative, captivating work that blends mystery, politics, philosophy, comedy and pointed observational barbs as it punctures any illusions about a post-racial America., Absolutely fascinating! Alice Randall weaves history and family, race and love. Tracing the life and death of Abel Jones, a modern-day black Confederate, she shows the proudest of times could wound even the prince of the Negroes. Her tale could only be written right now., Rebel Yell offers a rich journey through the world of distinguished graduates of Southern black colleges, black fraternities and sororities, Jack and Jill societies, Ivy League institutions and summer vacations at Martha's Vineyard -- the world, in short, of a black elite whose lives are only dimly glimpsed by many Americans... Rebel Yell raises the intriguing possibility that something went badly awry with some of the children who came of age during the most terror-ridden years of the civil rights movement. Rebel Yell is chock-full of such possible lines of development...Part detective story, part love story, Rebel Yell is a novel deeply suffused with nostalgia and mourning., Anyone aware of the many contradictions that embody black life in these United States will find in Ms. Randall's latest work a compelling and insightful read...she has the knack for illuminating the "place" of African Americans in the world and how that is both propelled and hindered by the past...Ms. Randall, as she has before, tackles uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and sexuality in a way that is as uncommon as it is grittily real., Randall moves masterfully between past and present and between Nashville, Washington, D.C., Manila, and Rome to present an intriguing portrait of a young black couple struggling with racial identity and expectations...Randall demonstrates, with delicious imagery and a sense of racial irony, a love for history's forgotten and overlooked., Rebel Yell addresses race, class, backroom politics, and family intrigue through the intellectual yet heart-smart lens of Harvard-educated African American Hope Jones Blackshear., Rebel Yell is at once a novel of restless movement and great psychological depth... Randall excels at humor and pathos and makes a most powerful and provocative social statement., This elegant monument to our national past bears a viaticum for our future: allusive and funny, tender and elegiac, celebratory and loving all at once, Rebel Yell performs a capable act of imagination that reconciles fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, black and white, region and world, the living and their dead in a grand harmonic register; it strikes a new lyric for the American novel., Author, novelist, professor, social critic and hit country music songwriter Alice Randall enjoys confronting, exposing and subverting the contradictions, ironies and delights of the Southern experience. Whether it's race, class, gender, or cuisine, the characters and plots in such past Randall novels as The Wind Done Gone or Pushkin and the Queen of Spades tweak, satirize and sometimes just straight-out blitz both conventional and unconventional ideas about authenticity, class and race, and their manifest forms in the 21st century. Still, as good as those books are, they've just paved the way for Randall's latest, an innovative, captivating work that blends mystery, politics, philosophy, comedy and pointed observational barbs as it punctures any illusions about a post-racial America...it's her sympathetic but acid-etched portrait of Jones, and his morphing into a Thomas Sowell or Armstrong Williams, that elevates Rebel Yell above a polemic along the lines of Michael Eric Dyson's heavy-handed takedown of Bill Cosby. Why didn't the specter of racial turmoil and conflict shape Abel Jones Jr.'s life in the manner of so many second-generation post-civil-rights leaders, who were nudged toward activism? That's among the many thorny questions Randall raises at a time when the afterglow of President Barack Obama's election has sparked the wishful thinking that our national dialogue on race is over, case closed., Randall's book will open a vein in the consciences--if consciences have bodily systems and parts, and I believe they do--of Southerners in particular...Technically, Rebel Yell is so far beyond the diaristic structure of The Wind Done Gone that it will take away the breath of readers of that first novel. Randall has gone from being a songwriter to début novelist to a writer fully in control of the complexities of her craft.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
In this gutsy novel from the bestselling author of The Wind Done Gone , a woman delves into her own past and her deceased ex-husband's private secrets to make sense of his unlikely transformation into a powerful black neo-con, and his even more unlikely end-at the Rebel Yell, a dinner theater of Confederate nostalgia. Rebel Yell is a novel of resilient love, political intrigue, and family secrets, steeped in our country's racial history and framing our unique political moment., In this gutsy novel from the bestselling author of The Wind Done Gone, a woman delves into her own past and her deceased ex-husband's private secrets to make sense of his unlikely transformation into a powerful black neo-con, and his even more unlikely end-at the Rebel Yell, a dinner theater of Confederate nostalgia. Rebel Yell is a novel of resilient love, political intrigue, and family secrets, steeped in our country's racial history and framing our unique political moment., "Irresistible ... the book is a veritable feast of black culture. Randall stacks her pages full of surprises ... [and] defies convention."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
LC Classification Number
PS3568.A486
Item description from the seller
Seller feedback (47,551)
- 1***n (325)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseReceived the Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon & Steelhead: A Comprehensive Guide for Anglers. The book is of high quality. I'm very happy with my purchase and will continue to order from this seller. This seller has the best communications that I have ever seen in a sell. The book is at a great value. The book was as described and in excellent condition. Shipping was very fast. The appearance of the book was excellent. The item was very well packaged. Again, I will continue buy from this sell.
- a***n (211)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis seller is the gold standard of eBay. The item arrived quickly and was lovingly and thoughtfully packaged. Splendid communication made this one of the finest experiences l've had in a while. The item is exactly as described and exceeds all my expectations. The value it will bring to my life is unmeasurable, my life will be forever changed …..Thank you!
- 4***d (521)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseSuper quick delivery. Well packaged to ensure no damage during shipping. Book exceeded seller’s description. Great communication and excellent customer service. Great price on increasingly rare book to find. Thanks!!!
Seller feedback (47,551)
- 1***n (325)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseReceived the Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon & Steelhead: A Comprehensive Guide for Anglers. The book is of high quality. I'm very happy with my purchase and will continue to order from this seller. This seller has the best communications that I have ever seen in a sell. The book is at a great value. The book was as described and in excellent condition. Shipping was very fast. The appearance of the book was excellent. The item was very well packaged. Again, I will continue buy from this sell.
- a***n (211)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis seller is the gold standard of eBay. The item arrived quickly and was lovingly and thoughtfully packaged. Splendid communication made this one of the finest experiences l've had in a while. The item is exactly as described and exceeds all my expectations. The value it will bring to my life is unmeasurable, my life will be forever changed …..Thank you!
- 4***d (521)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseSuper quick delivery. Well packaged to ensure no damage during shipping. Book exceeded seller’s description. Great communication and excellent customer service. Great price on increasingly rare book to find. Thanks!!!