{"product_id":"black-deutschland-paperback","title":"Black Deutschland - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's \u003ci\u003eBlack Deutschland \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDARRYL PINCKNEY\u003c\/b\u003e, a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, and the works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eBlackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut There: Mavericks of Black Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also collaborated with Robert Wilson on theater projects, including an adaption of Daniil Kharm's \u003ci\u003eThe Old Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739160547391,"sku":"9781250117977","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c97b5260e7baac030b1f238fba68a210.webp?v=1765155730","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/black-deutschland-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}