Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Five-carat soul / James McBride.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017Description: 308 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735216693
  • 073521669X
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Genre/Form:
Contents:
The under Graham railroad box car set -- Buck boy -- Ray-Ray's picture box -- Blub -- Goat -- Father Abe -- The moaning bench -- The Christmas dance -- The fish man angel -- Mr. P & the wind.
Summary: "An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives."-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: Black voices Fiction notes: Click to open in new window
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction McBride James Available 33111008822286
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The stories in Five-Carat Soul -none of them ever published before-spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic-all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.

As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water , he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don't fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition.

The under Graham railroad box car set -- Buck boy -- Ray-Ray's picture box -- Blub -- Goat -- Father Abe -- The moaning bench -- The Christmas dance -- The fish man angel -- Mr. P & the wind.

"An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives."-- Provided by publisher.

Powered by Koha