| A Cold Fire Burning Contributor(s): Heard, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1878923048 ISBN-13: 9781878923042 Publisher: Amok Books OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. Shadow is a working-class black man in the ghetto of Newark, NJ. An affair with Terri, a liberal white woman who works at a storefront drug rehab center, begins to throw his sense of the world into turmoil. When the racial and psycho-sexual tensions inherent in then relationship finally reach the boiling point, Shadow rejects Terri and everything she represents to him and winds up the leader of a rag-tag band of would-be black nationalist urban guerillas. Tragedy ensues when Shadow tries to transform their revolutionary rhetoric into reality on the harsh streets of Newark. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.04" W x 7.88" (0.40 lbs) 1 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey |
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| Publisher Description: A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. Shadow is a working-class black man in the ghetto of Newark, NJ. An affair with Terri, a liberal white woman who works at a storefront drug rehab center, begins to throw his sense of the world into turmoil. When the racial and psychosexual tensions inherent in their relationship finally reach the boiling point, Shadow rejects Terri and everything she represents to him and winds up the leader of a rag-tag band of would-be black nationalist urban guerillas. Tragedy ensues when Shadow tries to transform their revolutionary rhetoric into reality on the harsh streets of Newark |