The Catacombs - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9798217007332UPC:9798217007332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, African American & BlackSize:7.91 x 5.11 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0EV3HKK8
The Catacombs
An expat in Rome makes his way as a writer in this gripping and genre-defying novel, first published in 1965 by a rediscovered great of Black American literature. In this masterpiece of metafiction set in the Rome of the tumultuous 1960s, Black American expatriate Bill Demby narrates his attempts to write a novel about his friend Doris, another Black American working as one of Elizabeth Taylor's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9798217007332UPC:9798217007332Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, African American & BlackSize:7.91 x 5.11 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0EV3HKK8
William Demby was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1922, and attended college in Clarksburg, West Virginia, before enlisting in World War II and serving in Italy. He graduated from Fisk University in 1947 then moved abroad to Rome, where he spent the next two decades working as a novelist, journalist, and script translator and screenwriter for the Italian cinema. In the late...
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