Bibliograph

Fire shut up in my bones, a memoir, Charles M. Blow

Type

Label

Fire shut up in my bones, a memoir, Charles M. Blow

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fire shut up in my bones

Responsibility statement

Charles M. Blow

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up--a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stories and in the near-constant wash of violence"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

The house with no steps -- Thanksgiving -- Chester -- The punk next door -- Look-away Jesus -- Change -- Another boy's baby -- The brothers -- Hell week -- The champagne-colored girl -- Lie detector -- The just-in-case-gun

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