Lionel Newton, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93754-8
Lucas Martin, the unlikely hero of this wonderful first novel, is, by his own admission, a bit slow; he's also a self-professed coward with little vision or ambition. An African American high school student, Lucas is coming of age in a Long Island...
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Lionel Newton, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93755-5
The disintegration of a middle-class African American family is the focus of Newton's second novel, a first-rate follow-up to his debut work, Getting Right with God. Narrator Randall Roberts is a rising young painter with a terrible secret: he...
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Lionel Newton, Author Plume Books $9.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-452-27147-0
In Newton's impressive debut, an inner-city black teenager channels emotional turmoil into conversations with God and Satan, whom he imagines as aging, white drag queens. (Feb.)
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