Free Burning: A Novel
Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1400082897
ISBN13:9781400082896
Release Date:October 2006
Publisher:Three Rivers Press (CA)
Length:383 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Brace yourself.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
In his second novel (his first was 47th Street Black Boy), Bayo Ojikutu explores one man's struggle to survive by dancing on the thin ice of the two worlds he inhabits. On one hand he is young black father and husband trying to survive amid the temptations of thugs and drugs on Chicago's south side, and on the other, he's a black college graduate trying to make it in a white man's world. You will struggle along with Tommie Simms and he interacts sweetly with his wife and child, and you will brace yourself, as well, against the fear, hopelessness, and injustice that await him around every street-lit corner.
New Exploration of Staid Reality
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is provocatively written fiction, and an intermittently interesting read. Reviews chronicled by Kirkus, Black Issues Monthly Book Review, Essence, the Miami Herald, and the critique written by Donna Seaman of Booklist seem to hit the work's merit in most apt fashion. BURNING is strong urban literature, a welcome reprieve from common guttural, oblivious and nonsensical takes on contemporary "Black life" -- but it surely is not a read well-suited to those seeking easy "alleluias", "amens" and "yes ma'ams".
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