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Hardcover Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories Book

ISBN: 1574232126

ISBN13: 9781574232127

Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories

Wanda Coleman brings her enormous powers as a poet to her fiction, setting a scene with lightning-quick strokes, letting a closely observed detail speak for itself, or, alternatively, she will take an omniscient voice seeing beyond the impending and inevitable tragedy, but powerless to change either narrative or outcome. Powerless, that is, only within the bounds of the story, for Coleman is an author devoted to change, personal and political,...

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For some reason, when I read this book, a thought kept running through my head about the attempts to revive the old Twilight Zone magic on television. These attempts never worked for me because the scripts were too easy, the storylines silly. Yet, reading this book gave me hope. Many of the stories are little brain twisters where the end surprises you. And all of them deal with issues in our culture that blend murkiness and...

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