Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories.Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories by Charles Johnson Charles Johnson may refer to:
abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-743-26453-3 A submerged brilliance dwells in all the novellas This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by [ expanding it]. This is a selected list of novellas that have gained fame and/or critical and public acclaim. that make up Johnson's Dr. King's Refrigerator. Even though the author refrains from interrupting the even flow of his storytelling with loudening moments of intrigue, his intimate grasp of life, and the subtleties of the human experience make this book a deeply satisfying reading adventure. Johnson, a professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, invents his science, contemporary and historical fiction with insight and precision, speaking to the depth of the author's intellect. Even when he teases his readers to uneventful or abrupt endings, or when he stretches his premises to the height of imagination, they remain bolted to a concrete floor of realism that lend them originality, believability and enjoyment. He's able to pull this off with consistence--whether he's carefully reconstructing a scene in the Alabama kitchen of Martin Luther King Jr. during his graduate-school years, conjuring the details of a fictional central African empire The Central African Empire (French: Empire Centrafricain) was the name of the short-lived, self-declared autocratic monarchy that replaced the Central African Republic and was, in turn, replaced by the restoration of the republic. or turning presidents' sons into toads. Like the rest of the stories here, "Dr. King's Refrigerator" is intelligent. "Sweet Dreams" the most entertaining, takes a futuristic thrust, putting forth an entertaining vision of what it would be like in the near future when the government starts to tax people's dreams. Besides its undergirding genius, the second strength of the book is its accessibility. Anybody, or any age group of readers, should be able to enjoy these decompressed, clever and highly personalized stories. In their remarkable simplicity, they reach into the academic strongholds of philosophy and history, politics and the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. experience with surprising freshness and the fluency of years of gathered wisdom. Tanu T. Henry Tanu T. Henry, a former staff writer at Africana.com and the Oakland Press, is a programming manager at AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Black Voices. He is a graduate of Wilberforce University and Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's purpose is to train graduate students—either in the academic study of religion, or in the practice of a religious ministry. . |
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