High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney - 1992-06-09

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good Square, tight and unmarked. Minor edge wear. Superficial blemishes. DJ Clean and bright.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992-02-01. Paperback. Good.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used - Very Good. 1992. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. (Subject: Books).

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992-02-01. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/Very Good. Light shelfwear; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 320 pages

New York. 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374169985. 1st Novel. 309 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - detail from 'Dawn in Harlem' by Winold Reiss. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What is blackness? Is it an enduring legacy based on the truth of struggle, handed down from generation to generation? Or is it socially defined and hence ever-changing? The unnamed narrator of Darryl Pinckney's pointed, hilarious, and provocative novel raises this existential question again and again as he searches for an authentic model for being himself. HIGH COTTON evokes a world that has not often been written about before, and never with such acuity and finesse. It is the world of upper-middle-class blacks, of ‘nice Negroes,' ‘upper shadies' obsessed with light skin and good hair, exponents of Negro Firsterism and pride in Negro achievement that sometimes turns out to be hypocrisy. Our hero's bumpy progress… Read More