Five-Carat Soul
(Sprache: Englisch)
One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017
"A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." -New York Times Book Review
Exciting new fiction from James...
"A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." -New York Times Book Review
Exciting new fiction from James...
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One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017"A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." -New York Times Book Review
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird.
The stories in Five-Carat Soul-none of them ever published before-spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic-all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.
As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don't fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition.
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1Buck Boy
We was rehearsing over Mr. Woo's Grocery and Chinese Take-Out one day when the following happened:
We hear gunshots.
First we stop playing and hit the floor because in The Bottom you don't know who the good guy is. Then we hear Mr. Woo shouting downstairs and we run down and see him standing over Buck Boy Robinson.
Buck Boy be about seventeen years old, I guess. Don't matter now 'cause he laying on the floor dead as a doornail. Blood is everyplace. Buck Boy, dead as he was, still got a knife in one hand and a fistful of dollar bills in the other. His hand was clutching that money tight, like he never want to let it go.
Mr. Woo is a little old man who wear a yellow straw hat. Whether he's Chinese or Korean I don't know, but he let my band rehearse upstairs over his store for free. He holding a gun. He drop it like it's a firecracker and walk around in a little circle, ringing his hands and talking in Chinese or whatever. I couldn't understand a word.
Two cops come quick, chase everybody out the store, close it down and take the gun from the floor. They leave us inside because we are witnesses. The cop ask Mr. Woo what happened.
"He try to rob me," Mr. Woo say. He don't look too hot. His face is pale and he look like somebody punched him in the stomach. The cops have a heck of a time prying that money out of Buck Boy's hand. Finally they get it out and hand it to Mr. Woo, but the Chinese shake his head.
"Just get him out," he say. He don't look at Buck Boy when he talk.
By this time the whole neighborhood show up, including Buck Boy's sister Victoria, who be shouting and screaming outside Mr. Woo's store. The cops ask us questions but we really didn't see nothing, so the cops call the black van to come get Buck Boy. The van take its time to get there, but Buck Boy, he ain't in no hurry now. So we sit there a half hour: me, Dex, Goat, Bunny, Dirt, the cops, Mr. Woo, and Buck Boy. I seen that Buck Boy was wearing a brand-new pair
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of white and purple sneakers.
Nobody around here liked Buck Boy too much. He always be looking for trouble and he always be strung out on something what they call PCP or whatever that makes you lose your mind. Drugs was his main line, but he'd steal anything. Steal a purse, steal the chrome off a car, steal a whole car. The worst he did was he stole our whole school bus two years ago when we was on it. He crashed it into a light pole on the Boulevard and bang us up pretty bad and run off. I don't think he went to jail for it.
So nobody cry too much when they carry Buck Boy from Mr. Woo's Grocery except for his sister Victoria. It's kind of sad, because his mother never pay him no mind from when he was a little boy, and I heard people say she is strung out on drugs herself. That whole Robinson family is bad news.
No sooner do they load Buck Boy into the van than television trucks come flying up. They come all the way from Morgantown, West Va., twenty-eight miles across the state line, even though we is Uniontown, Pa., a whole different state. The news don't care. News is news. And The Bottom is always good news for the news. 'Cause we mostly bad news. The reporters jump out and bust through the crowd like cops. Right behind them come Rev. Jenkins. He is the preacher of my church, Bright Hope Baptist. I read a story in the newspaper once that say ever since the 1980s, Rev. Jenkins has been the "community leader" of The Bottom. I don't know what that is, but it do seem like whenever there's a fresh-cooked chicken or a television camera around, Rev. Jenkins don't be far off. When people talk about how much they hate Rev. Jenkins, my ma says, "I don't hate his guts. He's full of my food."
Rev. Jenkins cover a lot of ground just standing in one place. He's a big, fat man. I seen him undress at the pool one time, and it took me five minutes to see all of him. He got a slicked-back hairdo and he wearing one of his fine suits. He sports some of the most killing
Nobody around here liked Buck Boy too much. He always be looking for trouble and he always be strung out on something what they call PCP or whatever that makes you lose your mind. Drugs was his main line, but he'd steal anything. Steal a purse, steal the chrome off a car, steal a whole car. The worst he did was he stole our whole school bus two years ago when we was on it. He crashed it into a light pole on the Boulevard and bang us up pretty bad and run off. I don't think he went to jail for it.
So nobody cry too much when they carry Buck Boy from Mr. Woo's Grocery except for his sister Victoria. It's kind of sad, because his mother never pay him no mind from when he was a little boy, and I heard people say she is strung out on drugs herself. That whole Robinson family is bad news.
No sooner do they load Buck Boy into the van than television trucks come flying up. They come all the way from Morgantown, West Va., twenty-eight miles across the state line, even though we is Uniontown, Pa., a whole different state. The news don't care. News is news. And The Bottom is always good news for the news. 'Cause we mostly bad news. The reporters jump out and bust through the crowd like cops. Right behind them come Rev. Jenkins. He is the preacher of my church, Bright Hope Baptist. I read a story in the newspaper once that say ever since the 1980s, Rev. Jenkins has been the "community leader" of The Bottom. I don't know what that is, but it do seem like whenever there's a fresh-cooked chicken or a television camera around, Rev. Jenkins don't be far off. When people talk about how much they hate Rev. Jenkins, my ma says, "I don't hate his guts. He's full of my food."
Rev. Jenkins cover a lot of ground just standing in one place. He's a big, fat man. I seen him undress at the pool one time, and it took me five minutes to see all of him. He got a slicked-back hairdo and he wearing one of his fine suits. He sports some of the most killing
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Autoren-Porträt von James McBride
James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird , the No 1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water , and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna . He is also the author of Kill 'Em and Leave , a James Brown biography. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2016, McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James McBride
- 2017, 320 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0525533257
- ISBN-13: 9780525533252
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"These brilliant miniatures display all of the rambunctious fearlessness of [McBride's] deeply empathetic imagination... Five-Carat Soul [is] a delight." -New York Times Book Review"Brash, daring and defiantly original... [these] stories are bound to stay with readers for a very long time." -NPR
"A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places." -San Francisco Chronicle
"A vivid, often funny story collection that examines serious topics like race, war, history, and self-identity-all with a deft hand and a fluid, musical voice." -Entertainment Weekly
"The stories are diverse enough in style, theme and milieu to keep one's head thoroughly engaged... Serious fun." -Newsday
"The author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird possesses a biting wit, but disarms it with his calm, plainspoken style... A consummate entertainer, McBride has the comic energy and antic spirit of Richard Pryor." -Chicago Tribune
"If there's a mode in which McBride can't write brilliantly, he has yet to prove it." -Vulture
"The characters are disparate, but McBride is such an agile writer that each voice feels authentic and somehow familiar. Taken together the stories speak, if not directly to one another, to a greater humanity and wisdom we all desire... These are stories of and from the soul." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
[A] jazzy, generous spirit animates [Five-Carat Soul]... McBride succeeds by tempering absurdity with insight, and camp with poignancy." -Financial Times
"Five-Carat Soul by James McBride covers a lot of ground, all of it unpredictable, exhilarating, and, often, hilarious. The short stories bounce from one unlikely protagonist to the next ... I loved these stories individually; all together they make for a wild and utterly delightful ride." -BuzzFeed
"The short stories in this collection from National Book Award winner James McBride (The Good Lord Bird) range widely, from the Civil War to the Vietnam War
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and from the animal world to a toy train set, but all are poignant, imaginative, and 'literary' in the best sense of the word." -Christian Science Monitor
"McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana with his new book of charmed, imaginative short stories... [He] lets his sense of whimsy run wild in this collection... the results once again are funny, strange and touching." -Seattle Times
"McBride is one of this country's best writers, and that has never been more apparent than here, in his first short story collection... McBride's writing practically shimmers with energy and charm, making reading him a singular pleasure." -Nylon
"Hilarious, charming, and unlike anything else you'll read this year, these stories show more about the human psyche than one could possibly imagine." -PopSugar
"This collection of inventive and exuberant stories comes packed with singular voices, outlandish exploits and rare insight." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"McBride gives us [a] mix of hilarity and poignant truth in his collection of short stories, Five-Carat Soul... The ones that clarify injustice by making it hit us just as we are laughing the hardest-those stories are evidence of McBride's genius." -The Christian Century
"McBride delivers pure gold... Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom. Readers should put aside any prejudices they might harbor about short fiction because together these stories are a masterpiece that will enrich everyone it touches." -Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Humming with invention and energy, the stories collected in McBride's first fiction book since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird again affirm his storytelling gifts... McBride adopts a variety of dictions without losing his own distinctly supple, musical voice; as identities shift, 'truths' are challenged, and justice is done or, more often, subverted." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Each t
"McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana with his new book of charmed, imaginative short stories... [He] lets his sense of whimsy run wild in this collection... the results once again are funny, strange and touching." -Seattle Times
"McBride is one of this country's best writers, and that has never been more apparent than here, in his first short story collection... McBride's writing practically shimmers with energy and charm, making reading him a singular pleasure." -Nylon
"Hilarious, charming, and unlike anything else you'll read this year, these stories show more about the human psyche than one could possibly imagine." -PopSugar
"This collection of inventive and exuberant stories comes packed with singular voices, outlandish exploits and rare insight." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"McBride gives us [a] mix of hilarity and poignant truth in his collection of short stories, Five-Carat Soul... The ones that clarify injustice by making it hit us just as we are laughing the hardest-those stories are evidence of McBride's genius." -The Christian Century
"McBride delivers pure gold... Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom. Readers should put aside any prejudices they might harbor about short fiction because together these stories are a masterpiece that will enrich everyone it touches." -Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Humming with invention and energy, the stories collected in McBride's first fiction book since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird again affirm his storytelling gifts... McBride adopts a variety of dictions without losing his own distinctly supple, musical voice; as identities shift, 'truths' are challenged, and justice is done or, more often, subverted." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Each t
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