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The Virgin of Flames
15.99 JOD
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Description
For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city’s tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above ‘The Ugly Store’, he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse. Black navigates life alongside the Los Angeles River, ‘iridescent in its concrete sleeve’, enlisting his friends – Iggy, the beautiful tattoo artist who has beguiled Hollywood’s elite, and Bomboy, a wealthy Rwandan butcher – as he confronts his past and struggles to find his place in the world.Chris Abani touches on the far reaches of psychic pain, religious and sexual, and takes the reader on an unforgettable journey.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.213 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2017-11-27 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784707112 |
| About The Author | Chris Abani is the author of Becoming Abigail and Graceland which won the Hemingway/PEN prize and was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Award. He was born in Nigeria and has lived in London, New York and Los Angeles. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Review Quote | Chris Abani reveals Los Angeles as we have never seen it before – magical and crumbling, a place of deserted rooftop oases and intersections where new identities are bought and sold. He has rewritten our American story and brought the world into our streets |
| Other text | Contains moments of real tenderness and beauty |
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