The Ballad of Black Tom by Lavalle Victor
One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.-- Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction.
-- Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft's Dagon... The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending. - Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction
Victor LaValle is the award-winning author of The Ecstatic and Big Machine, as well as Slapboxing with Jesus, a collection of short stories. In 2010, Big Machine won an American Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly named it one of the greatest books of the year. He lives in New York and teaches writing at Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780765387868 |
| ISBN 10 | 0765387867 |
| Title | The Ballad of Black Tom |
| Author | Lavalle Victor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2016-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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