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William Gardner Smith

The Stone Face

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A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge from American racism in France, only to find himself complicit in a racist order of another sort. Simeon Brown, a journalist who, as a teenager, lost an eye in a racist attack, lives in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension, and after a violent encounter with some white sailors on shore leave, he decides to pack up and leave for Pari… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Shatz, Adam
  • ISBN: 978-1-68137-516-8
  • EAN: 9781681375168
  • Produktnummer: 35283574
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 225 S.

Über den Autor


William Gardner Smith (1927-1974) was a journalist, novelist, and editor. His first novel, Last of the Conquerors, was published in 1948, followed by Anger at Innocence, South Street, The Stone Face, and Return to Black America. Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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