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My Amputations: A Novel.
New York: Fiction Collective, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "My Amputations follows well-read parolee Mason Ellis as he impersonates an African-American novelist named Clarence McKay, whom he has taken hostage. McKay's literary agent plays along, and almost no one who meets the imposter on his worldwide lecture tour can tell the difference between Mason and the author whose identity he has usurped..." From review.
Currently a professor of twentieth century American literature at the University of California at Davis, Clarence Major is a poet, painter and novelist who was born in Atlanta and grew up in Chicago. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Bound in black cloth, gilt titling on the spine, a very good copy. 205pp, 23 cm. This copy is signed by the author on a preliminary and the former owner, in an illustrated dust jacket on glossy paper, minimal creasing. Item #7261
Price: $125.00