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Idi, a Senegalese English translator, relates a group of stories that capture the black experience in a range of African and Afro-American voices, telling of adolescence, racism, and beliefs lost and found 1.305

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 129 p.

University of Pittsburgh, 1988. Very good. , Hardcover, Bright ex-library copy in dust jacket. Text clean, binding tight. 129 pages. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. The jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, a short closed tear. Picked by Margaret Atwood for the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cover is in good condition save for some slight corner bumping, edge wear, and significant rubbing throughout. DJ suffers extensive rubbing to front and back covers with minimal edge wear. Text is clean and tight in binding. No ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Fine 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.129 "An enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness and from time to time a directness and honesty that makes you skirm" this is what you will find in these stories. clean tight copy.

Mali is very dangerous--First I look at the purse--Peaches Who Big Bob? --Uncle Moustapha's eclipse--Gettin to be like the studs--The voice--The honey boys--How I met Idi at the Bassi Dakaru Restaurant--Rebirth.

Softcover. First softcover edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and SIGNED again, with date and inscription, on the dedication page ("Bored Loaf, '95") . Illustrated covers are clean and sharp, slight uplift to corners. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. In Fine + condition. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 129 pages; Signed by Author