All-night Visitors

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UPNE, 1998 - 233 pages
First published in 1969 in severely abridged form, Clarence Major's powerful first novel is now available in an unexpurgated paperback edition that restores the full text of his critically acclaimed and controversial work.

All-Night Visitors is the riveting, erotic, and compelling story of Eli Bolton-orphan, college dropout, Vietnam veteran, and sexual voyager-as he struggles to establish a meaningful self-identity in a chaotic and bigoted world.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
13
Section 3
16
Section 4
18
Section 5
26
Section 6
30
Section 7
33
Section 8
38
Section 16
121
Section 17
135
Section 18
147
Section 19
159
Section 20
167
Section 21
169
Section 22
171
Section 23
177

Section 9
44
Section 10
47
Section 11
77
Section 12
84
Section 13
93
Section 14
112
Section 15
119
Section 24
206
Section 25
211
Section 26
214
Section 27
221
Section 28
233
Copyright

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About the author (1998)

Artist and writer Clarence Major grew up in Chicago and later received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Ohio. He has been a judge for the National Book Awards and was twice named to the panel of the National Endowment of the Arts. Major has written eight novels including "Such Was The Season" and "Painted Turtle," which received citations from the New York Times Book Review as Summer Reading and Notable Book of the Year, and "My Amputations," which received the Western States Book Award. Major published "Juba Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang," as well as nine other books of poetry that won a National Council of the Arts Award and two Pushcart Prizes.

Bibliographic information

TitleAll-night Visitors
Library of Black Literature
Northeastern library of Black literature
AuthorClarence Major
Editionabridged, reprint
PublisherUPNE, 1998
ISBN1555533671, 9781555533670
Length233 pages
  
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