An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper middle class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organisation, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
- ISBN10 0374169985
- ISBN13 9780374169985
- Publish Date 1 February 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 December 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English