Ingram Publishers Services

Ingram Publishers Services

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“The Bern Book is a work about ambivalence, escape, evasion, and the expatriate’s creed of noble procrastination, noble withdrawal. Carter is that familiar, defensive figure in the café, the man who refuses to be practical, the artist with impossible high standards, the stranger who is difficult to help.”—Darryl Pinckney, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature"Episodically riveting."—Kirkus Reviews"Like other black writers of his time, notably James Baldwin and Richard Wright, Carter had left the United States and moved to Europe to try his hand as an expatriate author. Unlike those novelists—now in the pantheon of black literature—Carter drew scant attention. Baldwin may have written Nobody Knows My Name, but the title applied even more to Carter."—San Francisco Chronicle