Tragic Magic: A Novel

By Wesley Brown

Book Overview

Foreword by Ismail Muhammad Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880014016
• ISBN13: 9780880014014
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Verbal jazz

Somewhat reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's narrator in "Invisible Man," Melvin Ellington's discourse takes place under the sway of the jazz he loves. Just as his nameless predecessor, he labors to make sense of a destiny that others are only too willing to define for him. The musicality of Brown's prose is both wondrous and, to these ears, unprecedented.