Life in 1950s Pittsburgh is slow and unsatisfying, at least for Jeremiah Hlenderson and his woman, Willet Mercer. So while the other locals sit and wait on their back-alley porches, the couple plan their escape to New York City. Poverty-stricken, Willet is forced to consider prostitution to fund their new life, but at the last minute she baulks and stabs the pimp, Tommy, to death. Aided by Tommy's money and a fancy Buick, it seems they may be in sight of their dreams; but they just have to make one last stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, to see the little boy Willet abandoned long ago...
"This book resembles Joyce. With an ever-shifting focus and linguistic invention, French has created a kind of symphonic poem about the hard scrabble of life in the back alleys of a dirty Northern town...This is not just a black novel, but a quintessential piece of noir. In black American writing - on the male side, at least - the literary patron remains the same as in noir: Dostoevsky ... I Can't Wait on God is a fine, moving novel and worthy inheritor
of that tradition" -INDEPENDENT
"From the author of the brilliant Billy, this is equally moving and beautifully written" -THE VOICE
"An evocative work, alternately brilliant and melodramatic, brimming with life" -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Albert French is one of the more distinctive voices of the 90s ... I Can't Wait on God has the wit, compassion and acute observation we expect from French, as well as the suspense ... most impressive" - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Cover photograph by Debra Hill
- Autor: Albert French
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 0099273268
- Data wydania: 2000-01-01
- Liczba stron: 246
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Vintage
