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"Hunger's Season" follows the adventures of an odd couple, an ex-baseball star of the Negro leagues and a young jazz musician, to explore the personal ambitions and conflicts of interest that arise among a vivid set of characters in diverse walks of life in a small Southern community in the early bitter and violent days of the Civil Rights Movement. Rico "The Anchorman" Jones was the first black man to be awarded the Silver Star for bravery, a war hero and baseball star of the Negro leagues as famous in his day as Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Marian Anderson. But when Lot Dundee, a gifted young jazz musician passing through on his own way toward fame and fortune, happens upon Jones, he finds his childhood hero startlingly changed. And the two men are soon swept up by the wave of terror and violence consuming the American South at the time. This is a deeply engrossing story, told with lyricism and humor, in which desperate men and fiercely independent women come alive on the page as they fight for survival and self-respect. It is a novel of passion and insight that deconstructs our popular notions of heroism and illuminates the fears and ambivalence that exist on both sides of the color line in a microcosm of America.
About the Author: Paul Hastings Wilson, winner of the Dana Award for Short Fiction, is the author of novels, novellas, short stories and poetry. His fiction takes the reader on journeys that plumb some of the most harrowing, bizarre and resonant byways of the human experience. They include spiritual quests, trials by fire, ribald digressions and detours into moral quagmires where consciousness is driven to the edge of an abyss. Examples include: -"In the Wilderness of Zin," concerning questions of justice and morality in the aftermath of a bloody revolution in North Africa; -"The Ishango Bone," concerning an enigmatic young woman from obscure and humble beginnings in North Africa who defies convention to rise in the contentious, male-dominated field of abstract mathematics to become a world-renowned number theorist and the price she pays for solving the greatest mystery of the mathematical world. -"Hunger's Season" follows the adventures of an odd couple, an ex-baseball star of the Negro leagues and a young jazz musician, to explore the personal ambitions and conflicts of interest that arise among a vivid set of characters in diverse walks of life in a small Southern community in the early bitter and violent days of the Civil Rights Movement; -"Blues By the Numbers," the escapades of a Louisiana jazz band and its wry piano player and master signifier who is forced by a brutal incident of racial violence into monstrous behavior; -"The House On Horatio Street," a poignant murder mystery in the heart of the New York literary scene; -"Veins of the Earth," the anguish of a doting single parent entrapped in child abuse. A past senior editor at McGraw-Hill and a devotee of jazz, theater and the martial arts, Mr. Wilson has also co-authored "Today: A Text-Workbook for English Language and Composition" and "Tae Kwon Do, the Korean Martial Art." Mr. Wilson's work has been published by Blue Atlas Press, McGraw-Hill, Center Magazine, Harper & Row and Avon Books, and a program on WBAI-FM radio in New York has been devoted to his poetry.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781439260685
  • Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Booksurge Publishing
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1439260680
  • Publisher Date: 21 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 408 gr

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