BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS; A Novel
New York, N.Y. Amistad / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, deep purple cloth with copper lettering & silhouette of man dancing on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colorful montage relating to Black Bottom dancers & Ziggy Johnson, red endpapers, 361 pages + [1] About the Author. Like New / Very Fine. Item #8494
ISBN: 9780062968623
EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED COPY: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable dj. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Alice Randall (born 1959) is an American author and songwriter. She is perhaps best known for The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation of Gone with the Wind.
In this book, Alice tells untold stories about Black Bottom, the Black Detroit "Motown" neighborhood that once rivaled and eclipsed Harlem as a vital center of Black artistic excellence and economic progress.
The story--Cynara’s story--is told by an imaginative and entrepreneurial beige woman. Her inspired narrative evokes a series of marvellously gifted "Black Bottom Saints"; among them: Robert Hayden, Nancy Elizabeth Johnson, Edward St. Benedict Plique, Night Train Lane...Bricktop, Nat "King" Cole, Butterbeans & Susie, and Ethel Waters.
Price: $35.00