City of Light by Colter, Cyrus

City of Light (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810150805)

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City of Light by Colter, Cyrus

City of Light

$22.00
City of Light by Colter, Cyrus

City of Light

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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Paul Kessey, age twenty-nine, is caught between two worlds. Although his is a privileged world of successful blacks in Chicago, and he is a graduate of Princeton, handsome and well-connected, Kessey is uncertain how to identify himself in relation to the African diaspora, partly because of his light skin. Throughout a Paris sojourn, he is both attracted and repelled by different ideas, attitudes, and concepts regarding the place of blacks in a white society; he goes back and forth among the persons and the ideas they represent, and thus among contradictory possibilities of life as a black man.

By intertwining in an intricate web racial, class, and political issues with the intense struggles of one man's heart, Colter presents a vivid portrait of the personal effects of prejudice and its hypocrisies. City of Light remains a daring push against the grain of American literary fashion.


Author: Cyrus Colter
ISBN-10: 0810150808
ISBN-13: 9780810150805
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1998
Pages: 423
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.55w x 0.94d
By Cyrus Colter
By Cyrus Colter
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Cyrus Colter was a distinguished attorney and public servant when he took up writing in midlife. He is the author of five other works, among them The Beach Umbrella and Other Stories, The Hippodrome, Night Studies, and A Chocolate Soldier, all published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press

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