Faith And The Good Thing

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ISBN-10:

0743212541

ISBN-13:

9780743212540

Author(s): JOHNSON, Charles
Edition: Annotated
Released: Jan 10, 2001
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Paperback, 238 pages
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Description:

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing". Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.












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