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by: Melvin Dixon, James Earl Hardy, A. Cinque Hicks, John Keene Jr., Jaime Manrique, Bil Wright, seventeen others  List Price: $12.00 Price: $3.68 You Save: $8.32 (69%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.00809206642 EAN: 9780380783052 ISBN: 0380783053 Label: HarperCollins Manufacturer: HarperCollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 348 Publication Date: June 01, 1996 Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: June 01, 1996 Studio: HarperCollins Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A gay African-American fiction anthology features works by award-winning authors and promising newcomers including A. Cinque+a6 Hick, Bil Wright, Larry Duplechan, and Jaime Manrique, and pays tribute to a range of cultural events. Average Rating:
 Rating: - an okay anthology about a great topicThis is an anthology about black gay men. Unfortunately, the tales inside are not as fierce or defiant as the title would suggest. In many of the pieces, issues of race and sexuality take the back seat to "l'art pour l'art", typical literature. The pieces near the back are better than the introductory ones. The piece by James Earl Hardy (who almost never writes short stories) is great. Jaime Manrique has a piece here and I've never seen him write about black issues (he writes almost exclusively ... Read More 
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