Dis//Integration : 2 novelas & 3 stories & a little play / William Melvin Kelley.

Author/creator Kelley, William Melvin author.
Format Book
EditionFirst Vintage Books edition.
PublicationNew York : Vintage Books, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Description206 pages ; 20 cm
Subjects

Variant title Disintegration
Abstract "The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles "Chig" Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from her front porch, when he is only seventeen, to his peripatetic studies in Reupeo (an anagram of Europe) as a college student, to his unsettled bachelorhood as an English professor at a small Vermont college, where he continues to struggle to finish his life-long study of the Reupeonese author Dupukshamin and find true love. Along the way, as Chig's sentimental education unfolds, we meet an array of memorable characters: John Hoenir, the Hemingway-esque expatriate novelist who takes Chig under his wing; Wendy Whitman, an actress passing for white, who breaks Chig's heart; Merry, his troubled teen-age niece who Chig, in middle-age, agrees to look after; Raymond Winograd, the villainous department chair; Renka Bravo, the alluring dancer who might just make Chig an honest man; and one hundred Africans mysteriously chained together in the lower decks of Chig's homeward-bound transatlantic liner. DIS//INTEGRATION is an an odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre/formnovellas.
Genre/formLinked stories.
Genre/formNovellas.
Genre/formDrama.
Genre/formCycles de nouvelles.
Genre/formNovellas.
Genre/formThéâtre.
LCCN 2023051287
ISBN9780593469934
ISBN0593469933
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