High Cotton: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Darryl Pinckney. (1992). High Cotton: A Novel. 1 Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Darryl Pinckney. 1992. High Cotton: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Darryl Pinckney, High Cotton: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
MLA Citation (style guide)Darryl Pinckney. High Cotton: A Novel. 1 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/B13/F53/14/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/B13/F53/14/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781466809970
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B0074LD69K
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781466809970
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Darryl Pinckney
- title
- High Cotton
- dateAdded
- 2016-12-01T14:38:11.993-05:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=767004
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- High Cotton A Novel
- crossRefId
- 767004
- subtitle
- A Novel
- id
- b13f5314-05ab-4692-82e2-4bbb3f4e7cf6
- starRating
- 4.2
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: HighCotton_9781466809970_767004
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 807017
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781466809970
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 2/1/1992
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/B13/F53/14/HighCottonANovel9781466809970.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: HighCotton_767004
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B0074LD69K
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 2/1/1992
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/B13/F53/14/HighCottonANovel9781466809970.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: HighCotton_9781466809970_767004
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781466809970
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 2/1/1992
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/B13/F53/14/HighCottonANovel9781466809970.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: African American Literature
- value: African American authors
- value: African American fiction
- value: african american writers
- value: african american books
- value: african american fiction books
- value: african american novels
- value: african american women fiction
- value: books african american
- value: books by african american authors
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Pinckney, Darryl
- bioText: Darryl Pinckney is the author of the novels Black Deutschland and High Cotton and the nonfiction works Busted in New York and Other Essays, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
- name: Darryl Pinckney
- publishDate
- 1992-02-01T00:00:00-05:00
- edition
- 1
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- High Cotton
- fullDescription
An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Publishers Weekly
- content: "This remarkably accomplished first novel about growing up as a "nice Negro" in conservative Indianapolis, Ind., is sure to put Pinckney, a journalist and critic, in the front ranks of new writers this season. Writing with passion and an elegant wit, Pinckney conveys the dedication, pride and hypocrisy that formed the society of "upper shadies" in the 1950s and '60s."
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
February 1, 1993
Pinckney's remarkably accomplished first novel about growing up as a ``nice Negro'' in conservative Indianapolis is provocative, original and frequently hilarious.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
February 3, 1992
This remarkably accomplished first novel about growing up as a ``nice Negro'' in conservative Indianapolis, Ind., is sure to put Pinckney, a journalist and critic, in the front ranks of new writers this season. Writing with passion and an elegant wit, Pinckney conveys the dedication, pride and hypocrisy that formed the society of ``upper shadies'' in the 1950s and '60s. The nameless narrator demonstrates extraordinary powers of observation and expression throughout this memoir-like work, which takes him from youth to the present. One of the first civil rights marches, in which he participates as a child, leaves him bewildered: ``My new shoes were covered with dust as fine as powdered ginger and I wanted to hurry home, to sink back into that state where good news for modern Negroes couldn't find me.'' That early cast of characters, from a powerful preacher grandfather and his wife, the difficult ``beige step-grandmother,'' to an old aunt who was ``paid to fidget with scissors,'' have had a greater effect on the narrator than he can calculate, and the farther he gets from them, the closer they crowd in his psyche. He seeks distance in the form of student activism, followed by expatriate life in Paris, but grandfather Eustace and those first experiences of Negro-ness have shaped, ultimately, the answers to the difficult question of identity and blackness. Pinckney's writing is provocative, exceedingly original and frequently hilarious. And in the aftermath of the Thomas/Hill debacle, its concern with upper-middle-class blacks should attract some extra attention.
- popularity
- 19
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/b13f5314-05ab-4692-82e2-4bbb3f4e7cf6/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- b13f5314-05ab-4692-82e2-4bbb3f4e7cf6
- starRating
- 4.2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/B13/F53/14/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/B13/F53/14/{B13F5314-05AB-4692-82E2-4BBB3F4E7CF6}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- publishDateText
- 02/01/1992
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780312420222
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
- sortTitle
- High Cotton A Novel
- crossRefId
- 767004
- subtitle
- A Novel
- publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC049000
- description: Fiction / African American & Black / General
