Indigo
by Richard Wiley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525935479
- ISBN 13
- 9780525935476
- Seller
-
Brentwood, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dutton, 1992. 1. Fine. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and one of America's most talented novelists, Richard Wiley gives fresh proof of his scope and power in this major novel set in Africa.Jerry Neal, an American living in Lagos, is principal of an international school attended by children of Americans living abroad and the African elite. The wife he loved is dead, and guiding the education of the offspring of others is his chief source of satisfaction and self-esteem. He is a man floating free, with both the privileges and purposelessness of detachment. He remains a stranger in the teeming, tumultous city.But Neal's self-contained world is suddenly shattered. He finds himself in prison, the victim of a government power play and his involvement with a group of Nigerian dissidents. Stripped of his mantle of immunity, he becomes more emotionally human again, living in his own skin, feeling the chill of danger, the heat of desire. Against his will, schoolmaster Neal begins his own education - one that takes him into the arms of the estranged wife of charismatic dissident leader Beany Abubakar.Thus Jerry Neal is seduced into a commune of serious people - artists and activists struggling against ruthless fate... and into confrontation with the prickly Abubakar himself, a leader whose arrogance is matched by intelligence, and whose passionate idealism is equaled by brutal realism. And slowly Neal starts to understand African aspirations... other kinds of lives and values... the barriers of language and culture to meaningful communication. This discovery unites him with the rebels in a plot to seize power slipping from the hands of a failing government. And it brings him to an ultimate reckoning of what commitment means and costs in the African crucible of choice and change.This extraordinary, beautifully crafted, and often funny novel is a riveting revelation of a distant land and its people brought tellingly home to the heart. Hardcover
Box 6
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Oasis in the Diaspora (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9780525935476
- Title
- Indigo
- Author
- Richard Wiley
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525935479
- ISBN 13
- 9780525935476
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 262
Terms of Sale
Oasis in the Diaspora
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Oasis in the Diaspora
Biblio member since 2022
Brentwood, California
About Oasis in the Diaspora
Oasis in the Diaspora is a literary, cultural and artistic emporium featuring a collection of books and ephemera each of which have led their own marvelous lives. Consisting of more than 12,000 rare Black books, small press poetry, multicultural children's books, and unique cultural artifacts, the collection primarily reflects the visions and voices of Black writers, historians, activists, artists and scholars across the African diaspora. Sweet smelling pages housed in pristine dust jackets, illustrated by the likes of artists Romare Bearden, Tom Feelings and Lois Malou Jones, are graced with the signatures and inscriptions of icons including Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Roy DeCarava, and contemporary writers of equal brilliance.
The Oasis in the Diaspora archives also includes a collection of more than 5,000 letters documenting Black lives and cultures from the late 19th century to the present, including correspondences from Jennifer Lawson, Afeni Shakur, Barack Obama, Richard Pryor, June Jordan, Shirley Graham DuBois, Angela Davis and hundreds of others.
Amassed by writer, activist, cultural broker and former manager of the iconic DC bookstore Drum and Spear Daphne Muse, the collection is now being sold to the people in order to preserve the legacies of those who have been an integral part of forging the paths of Black lives and cultures across two and into three centuries. Take a beat to browse, and behold the collective knowledge of Black lives across the Diaspora.
The Oasis in the Diaspora archives also includes a collection of more than 5,000 letters documenting Black lives and cultures from the late 19th century to the present, including correspondences from Jennifer Lawson, Afeni Shakur, Barack Obama, Richard Pryor, June Jordan, Shirley Graham DuBois, Angela Davis and hundreds of others.
Amassed by writer, activist, cultural broker and former manager of the iconic DC bookstore Drum and Spear Daphne Muse, the collection is now being sold to the people in order to preserve the legacies of those who have been an integral part of forging the paths of Black lives and cultures across two and into three centuries. Take a beat to browse, and behold the collective knowledge of Black lives across the Diaspora.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...