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Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights a Novel

The life of a "straight and narrow" black man, a topic rarely treated in contemporary fiction. The protagonist is Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, and the setting is a racially mixed community in a volatile quarter of Los Angeles. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots.

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  • "The life of a "straight and narrow" black man, a topic rarely treated in contemporary fiction. The protagonist is Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, and the setting is a racially mixed community in a volatile quarter of Los Angeles. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots."
  • "The life of a "straight and narrow" black man, a topic rarely treated in contemporary fiction. The protagonist is Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, and the setting is a racially mixed community in a volatile quarter of Los Angeles. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots."@en
  • "A young fireman battles to provide for his family-and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him Darnell Tucker has more to think about than the average twenty-year-old. A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, he works part time as the lone black member of the fire department and will soon be a father. Though he loves his job, cutbacks to the state budget force him to search for new work, and the low-paying positions he finds rival firefighting in their peril. On two of the jobs, he's mistaken for a criminal by the police; coming home from another, he's shot a."@en
  • "Darnell Tucker is a young black man working as a firefighter and at odd jobs, trying to keep on the straight and narrow. As his friends fall prey to the lure of the streets, drugs, and cheap thrills and guns, Darnell struggles to establish himself and to find a job that supports his young family. Yet even as he gains a tentative sense of self, Darnell is drawn to the destructive beauty of fires, and to the wilder, untamed forces beyond the structure of domesticity."
  • ""Darnell Tucker is a young black man working as a firefighter and at odd jobs, trying to keep on the straight and narrow. As his friends fall prey to the lure of the streets, drugs, and cheap thrills and guns, Darnell struggles to establish himself and to find a job that supports his young family. Yet even as he gains a tentative sense of self, Darnell is drawn to the destructive beauty of fires, and to the wilder, untamed forces beyond the structure of domesticity."--Page 4 of cover."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights A Novel"
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  • "Blacker than a thousand midnights"@en
  • "Blacker than a thousand midnights"
  • "Blacker than a thousand midnights : a novel"

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