A Visitation of Spirits
A Fiction, African American Literature, Fantasy book. One of the best I've ever read. Amazing writing, great style, ripping story
"Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage."--Gloria NaylorRandall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family.Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin Reverend James "Jimmy" Green questions the values of a community that nourishes a boy, places their hopes for salvation on him, only to deny him his destiny. Told in a montage of voices and memories, A Visitation of the Spirits just how richly populated a family's present is with the spirits of the past and the future.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780375703973 / 375703977
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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Though he remembered remembering. . . . It was neither clear nor chronological, and the images, the shards of feelings slicing at his heart caused him more confusion (Kenan 139) In A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan uses multiple perspectives, genres,... One of the best I've ever read. Amazing writing, great style, ripping story It may be a notable artifact of its time and a significant step in its author's development, but I found this to be an immature and confused book. It uses hallucinatory passages to review the past, slips in and out of reality, and varies so wildly between coherence and an overboard striving for lyricism that I was annoyed throughout....
