The outstanding follow-up to Albert French's BILLY (which Time magazine said 'may be the best first novel by a black author since Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in 1969'), Cinder is a tale of racial division in Mississippi, leading up to and during WWII.
Albert French served four years in the Marines as an infantryman. After the service, he taught himself photography and worked as a medical photographer and staff journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 1981 he created Pittsburgh Preview Magazine, which he published until 1988. He has written several novels, including Holly, I Can't Wait on God and a memoir, Patches of Fire.
Comparable to the groundbreaking work of Toni Morrison, Cinder is a
valuable addition to the chronicle of African American literature
and is destined to become a literary classic
*Big Issue*
Anyone who has read the fiction of William Faulkner will be
familiar with this world... French is a poet at heart...there are
moments of astonishing vividness throughout
*Guardian*
The idiom of his characters is rhythmic, expressive, ultimately
poetic, and brings William Faulkner to mind
*Independent*
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