In I Got Somebody in Staunton , the acclaimed William Henry Lewis brings us ten often sensual and always eye-opening tales. "Rossonian Days" follows a Kansas City jazz troupe to a gig in Denver, where they hope to strike it big. This story, itself a swinging riff, is also a humbling chronicle of the evolution of jazz and an incisive look at the ...
In these nine short stories that Ann Beattie called "a powerful first collection, " Lewis brilliantly captures the complexity of African-American family life. With memories as sublime as they are precise, Lewis' characters live in these pages, struggle for meaning, and learn to love each other. The spirits that connect us all are embodied in these ...
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was trained as a lawyer, but in the second part of his life he focused his attention on the emerging science of ethnography. Covering areas of North and Central America, Morgan's last book, Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines, was the first to regard a set of problems that is still currently debated: ...
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