Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow (English) Paperback Book

Description: Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow Charles M. Blow was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After - the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. This is the story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of Americas most innovative and respected journalists. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A New York Times Notable Book ^ Lambda Literary Award Winner ^ Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award "Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age." — Washington Blade "[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting." — New York TimesUniversally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalists indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M. Blows mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slaverys legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to "love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel." Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After—the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of Americas most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart. "Stunning . . . Blows words grab hold of you . . . [and] lead you to a place of healing." — Essence "The memoir of the year." — A. V. Club Back Cover A New York Times Notable Book Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award "Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age." -- Washington Blade "[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting." -- New York Times Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalists indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M. Blows mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slaverys legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to "love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel." Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After--the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of Americas most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart. "Stunning . . . Blows words grab hold of you . . . [and] lead you to a place of healing." -- Essence "The memoir of the year." -- A. V. Club Author Biography Charles M. Blow is an acclaimed journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times who appears frequently on CNN. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones. He lives in Atlanta. Review "[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting in its language, this slender volume covers a great deal of emotional terrain-much of it fraught, most of it arduous, and all of it worth the trip." -New York Times. Review Quote " Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a luminous memoir that digs deep into territory Ive longed to read about in black mens writing : into the horror of being submerged in a vast drowning swirl of racial, spiritual, and sexual complexity, only to somehow find ones self afloat, though gasping for breath, and then, at long last and at great cost, swimming. I believe both Ancestors and Descendants will cheer." -- ALICE WALKER "Some truths cannot be taught, only learned through stories - profoundly personal and startlingly honest accounts that open not only our eyes but also our hearts to painful and complicated social realities. Charles Blows memoir tells these kinds of truths. No one who reads this book will be able to forget it . It lays bare in so many ways what is beautiful, cruel, hopeful and despairing about race, gender, class and sexuality in the American South and our nation as a whole . This book is more than a personal triumph; it is a true gift to us all ." -- MICHELLE ALEXANDER , author of The New Jim Crow " Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a profoundly moving memoir of Charles Blows coming of age as a black boy in the Deep South; of the way his sensitive and gifted intelligence slowly begins to kindle, becoming ablaze with wonder at the world and his place in it. Above all, this is the story of a courageously honest man arriving at his decision to stop running like the river . . . and just be the ocean, vast, deep, and exactly where it was always meant to be. Blow has written a classic memoir of a truly American childhood ." -- HENRY LOUIS GATES " Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a heart-stopping memoir : a portrait of the artist--the exceptionally talented columnist Charles Blow--that also puts a searing face on all sorts of abstractions, like poverty, race, sexuality, and a human persistence sometimes known as courage. So particular yet gracefully timeless is this evocation of childhood that I sometimes felt as if I were reading an update of To Kill a Mockingbird , in which the poor, black protagonists moral education destines him to endure, and prevail." -- DIANE McWHORTER , author of Description for Bookstore HMH hardcover, 2014, 978-0-544-22804-7 Details ISBN0544570111 Author Charles M. Blow Short Title FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES Pages 240 Language English ISBN-10 0544570111 ISBN-13 9780544570115 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2015 Place of Publication Boston, MA Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2015-09-01 US Release Date 2015-09-01 UK Release Date 2015-09-01 Imprint Mariner Books Edited by Sergei Silvestrov Birth 1974 Affiliation University of Bremen Germany Position Customer Qualifications MD Publisher Houghton Mifflin DEWEY 070.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-08-14 NZ Release Date 2015-08-14 Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159377166;

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