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Captain Blackman
A Novel by John
A. Williams Named
among the most important works of fiction of the decade by The New York Times
Book Review when published in 1972, Captain Blackman is the first book
to be published in Coffee House Press’s Black Arts Movement Series. True
to form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research
of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain Blackman
is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and
out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America’s
wars from 1775 to 1975. Williams’s
Spring 1999 Coffee House Press novel, Clifford’s Blues, has been widely praised
for its compelling presentation of the neglected aspects of blacks in WWII. The
Boston Sunday Herald wrote, [Clifford’s] determined voice holds the novel together,
making Clifford’s Blues no mere period piece, but a compelling, pertinent testament
to the human survival instinct.
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Novels
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