Divine Days: A Novel

By Leon Forrest

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039303612X
• ISBN13: 9780393036121
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 1135 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful read!

This was such a good read, you get caught up in all the stories of all these wonderful characters. It is a big book but it reads so quickly. I know you will be glad to pick this up

please read this book

Divine Days is as beautifully written as it is challenging. It is massive, complex, and wonderful. Leon Forrest is truly one of the great writers of the 20th century. History may look back and place Forrest in the Canon along with the likes of Ellison, Faulkner, and Morrison. On the other hand, the book may continue to be overlooked. Either way, do yourself a favor and read this book. You'll be glad you did.

jazz, stories, history- it doesn't get any better than this!

Written in the free-form style of jazz music, Leon Forrest's novel captures the pride, woe and miracle of a people and of a generation. There will never be a more human, more complete, more whole celebration of storytelling and history than Divine Days!!!