Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

"Nothing short of a wonder-book."--New York Times Book Review

This remarkable collection of twelve short stories is about the diverse folk--black and white, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated--who live in the eastern North Carolina town of Tims Creek. Among the memorable characters are Clarence Pickett, who at age three began receiving messages from beyond the grave and whose gift seems tied to a hog's ability to talk; matronly Ida Perry, haunted by a boy her judge husband may have drowned years before; Dean Williams, hired to seduce the richest black man in Times Creek, yearning after innocence while he betrays love.


Author: Randall Kenan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/04/1993
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780156505154
ISBN10: 0156505150
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
- Fiction | Southern