Standing at the Scratch Line - Rilegato

Johnson, Guy

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375501584 ISBN 13: 9780375501586

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Forced to leave his Louisiana home after killing two white deputies during a raid on a rival's smuggling operation, Le Roi Boudreaux Tremain joins the army, where he becomes King Tremain, an angel of vengeance who kills based on his own code of honor, love, and loyalty. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Guy Johnson, the son of Dr. Maya Angelou, completed college in Egypt. After graduating,  he managed a bar on Spain's Costa del Sol, ran a photo-safari service from London through Morocco and Algeria to the Spanish Sahara, and worked on the oil rigs in Kuwait. He has recently taken a medical leave from the the local government of Oakland, California, where he was a manager for over twenty years. Johnson's poetry has appeared in Essence magazine as well as in My Brother's Keeper, an anthology of black male poets. He lives in Oakland with his wife and son.

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ick, low-lying fog covered the contours and waterways of the swamp. Only mature trees and shrubs were visible above the milky gray mist. Darkness was beginning to fade in the early-morning light, creating the surreal landscape of a nightmare."

So begins Standing at the Scratch Line, a breathtaking journey through thirty years of the African-American experience in America in a brilliant debut novel by Guy Johnson.

The story opens in 1916 in the steamy bayous of Louisiana. Young LeRoi "King" Tremain and his uncle Jake attempt a raid on a rival family's compound. In doing so, Jake dies, but not before LeRoi kills two corrupt white deputies. Forced by his family to leave everything he knows until the heat dies down, LeRoi embarks on a vivid adventure that first takes him to France during World War I, where he finds it is just as easy to kill vicious, bigoted U.S. soldiers as it is to kill Germans. Dubbed

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375501584
• ISBN 13: 9780375501586
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 548
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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