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Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel
- Narrated by: Charles E. Williams
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel
Narrated by:
Charles E. Williams
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Editorial reviews
Such Sweet Thunder belongs with other enduring documentaries of the dispossessed, like Cormac McCarthy's Suttree or Langston Hughes's novel Not Without Laughter. ( New York Times Book Review) "Carter connects all of our childhoods to Amerigo's, while making us feel intensely what made his childhood - Carter's childhood, presumably - as special as it was. The book does his memory proud. And gives our present time a priceless heirloom. The novel arrives late. But it lives." ( Newsday) "This is a rich addition to our literary understanding of the 20th-century African-American experience." ( Boston Globe)
Publisher's Summary
Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community.
©2003 Liselotte Haas (P)2013 Steerforth Press LLC
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