{"product_id":"lover-man-9781946022547","title":"Lover Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow South--a classic of 1950s Black fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaw, fearless, ironic, the stories in \u003ci\u003eLover Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s. Fascinated by loners and outsiders--tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, drifters, \"queers\"--and by the spiritual cost exacted by the myths of white supremacy, Anderson assembled an original kind of story collection, whose themes troubled and bewildered many of his early readers. Although later championed by Langston Hughes and Henry Louis Gates. Jr., among others, this--his only collection--has remained out of print since the '50s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In his afterword to this new edition, the literary historian Kinohi Nishikawa investigates Anderson's pief but pilliant career, the controversy his work provoked, and the light it sheds on his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15468989\"\u003eAlston Anderson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946022547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1946022543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC049000\"\u003eAfrican American \u0026amp; Black | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC066000\"\u003eSmall Town \u0026amp; Rural\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlston Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-2008) was born in Panama to Jamaican parents who brought him to North Carolina as a child. After serving in the Army during World War II, Anderson attended North Carolina College and Columbia University on the G.I. Bill, as well as the Sorbonne, where he studied German philosophy. Moving in expatriate circles, he overlapped with James Baldwin at Yaddo, stayed with Robert Graves in Majorca, and co-interviewed Nelson Algren with Terry Southern for the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e. After \u003ci\u003eLover Man\u003c\/i\u003e, he published one novel, \u003ci\u003eAll God's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, a critical and commercial failure. Following a series of personal and professional ruptures, Anderson vanished from the public record in the early 1970s until the time of his death in New York's Bellevue Hospital. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKinohi Nishikawa\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eStreet Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches African American print culture at Princeton University.","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48455925563629,"sku":"9781946022547","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_a7c234c3-9cc6-45fd-b9bc-4ad0eba0162d.jpg?v=1753540011","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/lover-man-9781946022547","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}