BLACKER THAN A THOUSAND MIDNIGHTS

Straight, Susan

ISBN 10: 0786860030 / ISBN 13: 9780786860036

Published by Hyperion, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Author of AQUABOOOGIE, I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS, HIGHWIRE MOON, and A MILLION NIGHTINGALES. As new, unread copy with publisher's postcard laid in, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L98. Bookseller Inventory # 11546

Bibliographic Details

Title: BLACKER THAN A THOUSAND MIDNIGHTS

Publisher: Hyperion, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

A look at a black man who attempts to live within convention chronicles the life of Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, who attempts to fulfill his wife, his family, and his attraction to the dark destructiveness of fire.

About the Author:

Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her most recent, Between Heaven and Here, is the final book in the Rio Seco trilogy. Take One Candle Light a Room was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Kirkus Reviews, and A Million Nightingales was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her novel Highwire Moon was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harper’s, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Zoetrope: All-Story, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Straight has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. She is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family, whose history is featured on susanstraight.com.