“[T]he lucid and elegantly phrased prose in these pages is the reflection of a sophisticated and well-read man. The energy of his convictions enlivens for contemporary readers many of the debates central to the founding of the United…
“Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.”—Jonathan Lethem
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“He is American literature’s greatest, most enduring enigma. . . . In bursts of poetry and prose, Cane tells of black life in the lethal rural South and in the loveless cities of the North. The narration has a kind of cosmic…
America’s most controversial founder—in his own words