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Faith and the Good Thing

von Charles Johnson

Fiction African-American Literature Contemporary Literature

ISBN

0452266904

Verlag

Plume Books

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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African-American literature pilgrimage odyssey rural South urban Chicago magic realism mysticism self-discovery tragedy National Book Award 1970s fiction coming-of-age social issues identity cultural heritage transformation literary fiction American storytelling Charles Johnson debut novel faith innocence middle-class reality prostitution drugs drink African-American experience journey life-affirming modern-day.

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Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.