Love for Sale

by Clifford Thompson

Overview

In his debut essay collection, Clifford Thompson muses on different art forms and their relation to his experiences as an African-American in the post-Civil Rights era, reminiscent of James Baldwin. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932870879
Publisher:	Autumn House Press
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	755 KB

About the Author

Clifford Thompson received a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction in 2013 for Love for Sale and Other Essays. He is the author of a novel, Signifying Nothing, and his essays on books, film, jazz, and American identity have appeared in publications including The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, Commonweal, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Oxford American, and Black Issues Book Review. For over a dozen years he served as editor in chief of Current Biography, and he has held adjunct professorships at Columbia University and New York University. Thompson is married with two daughters and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

What People are Saying About This

Phillip Lopate

“The triumph of this deeply satisfying essay collection is its presentation of a whole human being: immensely cultivated, likable because unfailingly honest, reasonable, mature, witty, and never less than eloquent. Clifford Thompson’s perspective is that of a humane African-American male who is wary of any condescending sentimentality or group-rant, who loves jazz, movies, books, and the oddities of daily life. His prose style is consistently thoughtful, surprising and unobtrusively elegant, and the voice navigates with remarkable smoothness between personal experience and critical analysis. With this selection, he vaults to the front ranks of essayists of his generation.”

Editorial Reviews

Clifford Thompson's eclectic collection of personal reflections and commentaries on books, music, film and art reveals clarifying perceptions about American culture in a compelling voice of enthusiasm, honesty, humility and balance.”—Roberto Bonazzi, San Antonio Express-News

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