Blacker than a Thousand Midnights

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A look at a black man who attempts to live within convention chronicles the life of Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, who attempts to fulfill his wife, his family, and his attraction to the dark destructiveness of fire.

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots established Straight as one of America's foremost chroniclers of African American life. Now, with this novel, she becomes one of the first novelists to write about the dangers and complexities facing...

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1994 Hard cover First edition. Stated 1st ed. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 388 p. Audience: General/trade. This is the story of Darnell Tucker, a black ... firefighter and workingman trying to work the toughest turf of all: the straight and narrow. As his friends disappear around him---victims of the streets, of police dogs, of drugs, of a an addiction to cheap thrills and guns---Darnell struggles to establish his own business. Read more Show Less

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New York, NY 1994 Quarter Cloth First Edition, First Printing New in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. New York, NY, Hyperion Books, 1996. First edition, first printing. ... 8vo. Black quarter cloth over bright yellow boards, lavender endpapers, rough cut pages, 388 pp. Darnell Tucker struggles to establish his own business, facing a thousand midnights before he's home free, with a job that supports his young family. Yet, even as he gains a tentative sense of self, Darnell is drawn to the destructive beauty of fires, and to the wilder, untamed forces beyond the structure of domesticity. This search for balance in a dangerous world propels the quiet heroism of a beautifully evoked and very moving story. Dust jacket as minor shelf wear, otherwise in pristine condition. New in a near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. Read more Show Less

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Overview

A look at a black man who attempts to live within convention chronicles the life of Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, who attempts to fulfill his wife, his family, and his attraction to the dark destructiveness of fire.

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots established Straight as one of America's foremost chroniclers of African American life. Now, with this novel, she becomes one of the first novelists to write about the dangers and complexities facing young African American men today.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
A young man in East L.A. tries to carve out a place for his family and find a sense of self in this novel by the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots. (July)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786860036
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 6/1/1994
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 1.37 (h) x 9.50 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2000

    this is one story that can touch your heart

    this is the story about a black man in today's world trying to do the right thing... this is the sort of story that can give you hope in a society where all odds seem to be against all 'the brothas' out there.

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