Satisfied with Nothin'

Zusatztext "Hill is a skilled storyteller." -- Fran Handman! The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor ERNEST HILL is Writer-in-Residence at Southern College. A LIFE FOR A LIFE is his second novel. Klappentext In this novel! Hill chronicles the transformation of an African-American youth--"a long-awaited incarnation of Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas" ("Baltimore Sun")--from a naive athlete to a college football star at a newly integrated college to a hard-driving! cynical adult determined to succeed despite the opposition of whites and the complacency of blacks. Zusammenfassung This is the story of Jamie Ray Griffin! a young black man who! by virtue of his talent on the football field! finds himself suddenly thrust into a white world full of privilege! temptation! and never-before-imagined possibility. Encouraged by the facade of acceptance from the white community! Jamie strives to succeed! but finds himself thwarted at every turn -- by whites and blacks alike. Satisfied with Nothin' chronicles Jamie's development from a naive! unsophisticated teen to a hard-driving! cynical adult determined to succeed despite the opposition of whites! the complacency of blacks! and his own tragic fate. In doing so! it provides a powerful and important portrait of the black experience in post-segregation America.

Product details

• Authors: HILL, Ernest Hill, Hill Ernest
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2008
• EAN: 9781416556985
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-5698-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general