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"Thirteen dead black men, and nobody knows it happened," so says Johnny Smith, who sets out on a quest to make things right in the powerful novella that begins this collection - a masterpiece of collaged voices. Voice is urgent and significant--Dobson focuses throughout on the invisible and the unvoiced-he brings them to center stage, where they speak their pain and frustration. "Maybe we can revise history," one of his characters says; Dobson's book does just that. Mary Grimm, novelist, professor, Case Western University In entrancing prose that claims a place with writers as powerful as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and John Edgar Wideman, Frank Dobson offers his own bold, subtle explorations of race and life in America. I sat down to skim a bit of his new book of stories, and ended up reading its central novella straight through. This narrative of the .22-Caliber killings in Buffalo - little known to most Americans-and the lives of blacks and whites caught up in those tense days makes for suspenseful, compelling reading. Jeff Gundy, poet, professor, Bluffton University

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Rendered Invisible
• Subtitle: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and Death
• Author: Frank E Dobson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150
• EAN: 9781935514350
• ISBN: 9781935514350
• ID: 08882301
• Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
• Weight: 224 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 158 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2010

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