MC1019 Random House New York, NY, U.S.A. 1976 First Edition Dust Jacket Very Good Hard Cover Very Good Green paper on boards, blue cloth on spine. 168 pp. Volume has very lightly bumped front bottom corner. Jacket is lightly shelf worn on edges. This novel was published eight years after the author's killing by a New York Transit policeman in the subway. "Jonoah and the Green Stone is a story about what it was like for a young Black man from Arkansas to deal with the turbulence of the sixties. Begining in 1938, floating on a johnnyboat in the middle of a Mississippi flood that has just orphaned him, the narrator takes us on a journey of a man hunted down in the cane fields and haunted by his own conscience - until finally, once again, he finds himself on the Mississippi River, certain he is going to die. Jonoah and the Green Stone was in draft at the time of Dumas' death, but even in that stage (and with help from Eugene Redmond) it is the most haunting, the most beautiful, the most moving piece of fiction published in a long, long time. Dumas' talent has that rare ingredient: authority." $25.00USD
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