Why Must a Black Writer Write about Sex?

by Dany Laferrière

Book Overview

"field notes" on North America, Haiti, tr D Homel This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889104824
• ISBN13: 9780889104822
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Coach House Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Why you must read it..

There is more substance in a single paragraph of this book than in ten thousand pages of Grisham or King. Reading this book will change how you think about America, fame, blondes, books, sex and popular culture. Every sentence is to be relished.

Why is this book out of print?

This book is the conceptual if not the chronological follow-up to 'How to Make Love to a Negro', and shares many of the same traits: it's oddly written, occasionally infuriating, and defiantly un-PC. Basically a series of loosely connected vignettes about America, success, race, and sex, it doesn't sound very unique but the writing puts it ahead of the pack - great, weird journalism, in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson. It's not essential by any means, but it is worthwhile and it certainly shouldn't be out of print.