Book description
A virtuosic epic applauded by Stanley Crouch as "an adventurous masterwork that provides our literature with a signal moment," back in print in a definitive new edition
"I have an awful memory for faces, but an excellent one for voices," muses Joubert Jones, the aspiring playwright at the center of…
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1 author picked Divine Days as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was overwhelmed and carried away by this epic novel.
Everything about it is too much—an incredible richness of characters and stories and themes, and prose that matches Faulkner and Joyce with the best Black jazz. The heart of the book beats with the rhythms of Chicago streets and the Civil Rights movement and the life of a writer. But page after page invites me to laugh or cry.
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