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- catalog abstract ""Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and '30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a boy, Amerigo Jones. This unique and vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community." "Amerigo is just discovering, but not really understanding, racial prejudice. Like any growing boy, he is also learning about sexuality, art, literature, and life itself. He is a dreamer, and yet it is clear that many of his dreams will not come true, not because of who he is, but because of the color of his skin." "Completed in the 1960s, Vincent Carter was unable to find a publisher for his ambitious book, in part because it did not fit what publishers were looking for in the way of "Negro literature." But when Richard Wright's widow, Ellen, read it, she could hardly contain her enthusiasm, and finally said simply that such a tableau of childhood by a black man had never been done. By 1970 Carter had given up trying to find a publisher. He died in 1983, and his work came perilously close to disappearing without a trace."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12816738.
- catalog coverage "Kansas City (Kan.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Kansas City (Mo.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and '30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a boy, Amerigo Jones. This unique and vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community." "Amerigo is just discovering, but not really understanding, racial prejudice. Like any growing boy, he is also learning about sexuality, art, literature, and life itself. He is a dreamer, and yet it is clear that many of his dreams will not come true, not because of who he is, but because of the color of his skin." "Completed in the 1960s, Vincent Carter was unable to find a publisher for his ambitious book, in part because it did not fit what publishers were looking for in the way of "Negro literature." But when Richard Wright's widow, Ellen, read it, she could hardly contain her enthusiasm, and finally said simply that such a tableau of childhood by a black man had never been done. By 1970 Carter had given up trying to find a publisher. He died in 1983, and his work came perilously close to disappearing without a trace."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "x, 537 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Such sweet thunder.".
- catalog identifier "1586420585 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Such sweet thunder.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press,".
- catalog relation "Such sweet thunder.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "Kansas City (Kan.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas City (Mo.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.6 21".
- catalog subject "African American men Fiction.".
- catalog subject "African American soldiers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Americans France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jazz musicians Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3603.A79 S83 2003".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 African Americans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men Fiction.".
- catalog title "Such sweet thunder / Vincent O. Carter.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "War stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".