The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia

by Mary Helen Stefaniak

Book Overview

As an epigraph from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois reminds us at the start of this novel, "Throughout history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness."

Protagonist Theo Boykin is a genius, an artist, an inventor, a Leonardo DaVinci-type, whose talents are sought after by local blacks and whites alike, but even this is not enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393341135
• ISBN13: 9780393341133
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"