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Tony Pellar, a man of former style and fading beauty, has fled to the subway tunnels beneath New York. There he makes an even more perilous interior journey convinced the key to his sanity lies in retracing the events of his North Carolina childhood.
As Tony gradually remembers, the stories of both his childhood friend Mikey, and of Agatha, a complex woman with a disfigured face, interweave with his own. All three stories finally come together against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and a heartrending and haunting climax.
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"ORANGE LAUGHTER descends from Dostoevsky's NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by way of Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN, William Faulkner, and recent popular American music. . . . Ross has a powerful style, a taste for complex organization, and a strong imagination. ORANGE LAUGHTER is a brilliant novel."--Bruce King, World Literature Today
"Chillingly real--raw, naked in its desperation, darting to the edge of sanity and back. Ross has created a powerful story and unforgettable characters."--Grace Fill, Booklist, starred review
"Here is a novel which eloquently addresses our collective quest for a sane center where self and other may endure and thrive. Indeed, this is a story of private correspondences from the glowing regions of heaven and hell, a near-mythic tale which illuminates our dual impulses for connection and isolation, creation and destruction, salvation and damnation."--Jeffrey Renard Allen, author of RAILS UNDER MY BACK
"Ross . . . combines a postmodern stream-of-consciousness narrative of madness with a devastating tale of real-life racial evil. . . . The finely controlled pacing yields an emotional clout as chilling as the times it evokes. Literate and accomplished."--Publishers Weekly
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Leone Ross lives in north London. Orange Laughter is her first novel to be published in the United States.
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- PublisherAngela Royal Publishing
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1899860754
- ISBN 13 9781899860753
- BindingPaperback
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