{"product_id":"rendered-invisible-stories-of-blacks-and-whites-love-and-death-9781935514350","title":"Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and Death","description":"\"Thirteen dead black men, and nobody knows it happened,\" so says Johnny Smith, who sets out on a quest to make things right in the powerful novella that begins this collection - a masterpiece of collaged voices. Voice is urgent and significant--Dobson focuses throughout on the invisible and the unvoiced-he brings them to center stage, where they speak their pain and frustration. \"Maybe we can revise history,\" one of his characters says; Dobson's book does just that. \u003cbr\u003e Mary Grimm, novelist, professor, Case Western University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In entrancing prose that claims a place with writers as powerful as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and John Edgar Wideman, Frank Dobson offers his own bold, subtle explorations of race and life in America. I sat down to skim a bit of his new book of stories, and ended up reading its central novella straight through. This narrative of the .22-Caliber killings in Buffalo - little known to most Americans-and the lives of blacks and whites caught up in those tense days makes for suspenseful, compelling reading.\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Gundy, poet, professor, Bluffton University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plain View Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935514350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Frank E. Dobson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397763530933,"sku":"9781935514350","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ddbb5966-e6a4-4a3e-9bd9-998c9e10fb16.jpg?v=1702393908","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rendered-invisible-stories-of-blacks-and-whites-love-and-death-9781935514350","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}