Ten Seconds - Softcover
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The narrator, a Black oil refinery worker in Louisiana, looks back on his life and the people and events that have shaped it.
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"Louis Edwards deserves the highest praise for creating a human portrait of a black male as compelling and sensitive as it is rare in recent American fiction." --Charles Johnson"Louis Edwards' Ten Seconds is a very readable first novel, ingenious and gracefully written. It is also very disturbing. . . . Edwards is effective without overt, cliched attacks on the system; absent are strident denunciations." --Maurice Bennett, Washington Post Book World"Ten Seconds is classic in its intimate portrait of maleness, softspoken and secretive. . . . Ten Seconds is filled with beautiful insights about what goes on between men, the subtle communications, rather than backslapping or jostling. . . . This is Louis Edwards' first book and a fine debut, testament to believing and thinking about living. . . . A perfect 'Ten'." --Fatima Shaik, New Orleans Times-Picayune
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"Louis Edwards' Ten Seconds is a very readable first novel, ingenious and gracefully written. It is also very disturbing. . . . Edwards is effective without overt, clichéd attacks on the system; absent are strident denunciations."--Maurice Bennett,Washington Post Book World
"Ten Seconds is classic in its intimate portrait of maleness, softspoken and secretive. . . .Ten Seconds is filled with beautiful insights about what goes on between men, the subtle communications, rather than backslapping or jostling. . . . This is Louis Edwards' first book and a fine debut, testament to believing and thinking about living. . . . A perfect 'Ten'."--Fatima Shaik, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Louis Edwards was born in 1962 and grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Since 1986 he has worked for the public relations offices of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the JVC JAZZ Festival-New York. He lives in New Orleans.
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- PublisherGraywolf Press,U.S.
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1555971504
- ISBN 13 9781555971502
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
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