signed first edition Hard Cover
1994 · New York
by Straight, Susan
New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x9x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. 388 pp. 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 at by a gang. His path blocked by economics, institutionalized racism, and the dangers of the place where he lives, how can he provide for his daughter, who has changed his life? Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights is a stark and thoroughly convincing portrait of life on the margins. (Inventory #: 2282491)