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Carter, , intro. by Herbert R. Lottman. . Steerforth, $25.95 (560pp) ISBN 978-1-58642-058-1</h3><div class="cover hidden-not-breakpoint-phone" aria-hidden="true"><img class="responsive big-cover" src="/cover/9781586420581"></div><div class="text-body mdc-typography--body1 font-source-serif-pro"><P>Written in 1963 and shelved, this hefty, astonishing novel by a black American expatriate who died in 1983 tells—in electric modernist vernacular prose—the story of a black child's life in Jim Crow America. In France during WWII, soldier Amerigo Jones thinks back on his youth in the 1920s and '30s in a black community resembling the author's native Kansas City. At first, the members of his extended family are presented as a chorus of voices fading in and out: his lovely, luxury-craving mother, Viola; his stern, dapper bellhop father, Rutherford; his grandmother and a bevy of aunts. After this short stream-of-consciousness section, the novel settles into a fluent, easy chronological narrative weighted toward the dreamy, determined Amerigo's early childhood, but stretching all the way to his graduation from high school. Through a steady accumulation of detail ("Five o'clock. Supper: hot dog sandwiches, salad, and beer for them and strawberry soda-pop for him"), sustained lyricism ("Fat round A's, B's, and C's spread out over the ruled spaces of his mind"), flights of fancy ("And he was the Swan Prince! 'Wauk! Wauk!' He cried plaintively, his heart beating violently") and, especially, reams of swinging dialogue (" 'A man reads this paper an' gits <EMPHASIS TYPE="ITALIC">fightin' mad</EMPHASIS>! Waitaminute!' "), Carter paints an uncommonly rich picture of black American family life in the early 20th century. Like the composition it is named for, a Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn tribute to Shakespeare, it is a marvelous blend of jazz rhythms and high literary tradition. <EMPHASIS TYPE="ITALIC">(Apr. 15)</EMPHASIS></P><P><EMPHASIS TYPE="BOLD">Forecast:</EMPHASIS><EMPHASIS TYPE="ITALIC">Carter may be neglected, but he has never been entirely forgotten. An essay on his only previously published work,</EMPHASIS> The Bern Book: A Record of the Voyage of the Mind<EMPHASIS TYPE="ITALIC">, about his life as the only black man in Bern, Switzerland, was included in Darryl Pinckney's</EMPHASIS> Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002). <EMPHASIS TYPE="ITALIC">This novel could very well spark a revival of interest in this underappreciated writer.</EMPHASIS></P></div><button class="details-button mdc-button mdc-button--outlined font-source-sans-pro--bold" aria-hidden="true" data-sargasso-class="OpenModal" data-target="#details-9781586420581" data-ga-id="details"><span class="mdc-button__ripple"></span><span class="mdc-button__label">DETAILS</span></button><button class="share-button mdc-button mdc-button--outlined" aria-hidden="true" data-sargasso-class="ShareMenu" data-target="#share-9781586420581"><span class="mdc-button__ripple"></span><span class="mdc-button__label material-icons material-icons-outlined">share</span></button><button 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