Lee gave his son shortly before the child died - is in the hands of a preacher in Queens, who is apparently unaware of his value. ("Toy collecting is a small world," he boasts, "and in that world I am Pete Rose, Henry Aaron, and the Babe, all rolled into one.") He can barely contain his excitement when he learns that the train set in question - a bespoke toy that Robert E. The first story in the collection, "The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set," centers on a monomaniacal vintage toy salesman with a knack for getting what he wants. And every one of them is brash, daring and defiantly original. Some are straightforward some are gleefully surreal. The book begins with a story about a coveted toy train set, and ends with one about a zoo full of animals who can communicate with one another. It's fitting, then, that McBride's wonderful debut short story collection, Five-Carat Soul, covers so much ground. Between books, he's busied himself with screenwriting, songwriting, and playing his beloved tenor saxophone. The journalist and writer took the literary world by storm in 1995 with his memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, then followed it up with three well-received historical novels, the most recent of which, The Good Lord Bird, won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. There are a lot of things to admire about James McBride: chiefly, his refusal to be pinned down. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Five-Carat Soul Author James McBride
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |