The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might f
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." --The Philadelphia InquirerWhen it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Re
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War eraAt the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-
