Why Sleeping Dogs Lie.by Tracie Howard Penguin Books, November 2003 $12.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-451-20977-X We all have secrets and skeletons archived in the closets of our hearts and minds. We tend to forget about them hoping that they will never be excavated or realized. To the contrary, and at life's most unpredictable times, the past reveals its ugly head. Situated within this framework and set in the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. glitz and glamour of New York, the city that never sleeps, Tracie Howard reveals why sleeping dogs lie. Off the heels of two novels coauthored with Danita Clark, (Revenge Is Best Sensed Cold, October 2001, and Talk of the Town, November 2002, both from New American Library), Howard chooses to confront issues of gender politics, politics of sexual orientation, money, power and greed in her debut novel. Her protagonist is Mallory Baylor. She is smart, beautiful, stylish and in control of Heat magazine, the hottest urban publication in the world. After a love relationship with Saxton McKensie, a high-powered media mogul, she flees from her home of Atlanta, Georgia, bearing a secret, to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. to start over--so she thinks. Howard's writing is explicit and sophisticated. She manipulates language in such a way that places the reader right in the thick of the situation. Without banging the reader over the bead with argumentation and polemics po·lem·ics n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. The art or practice of argumentation or controversy. 2. The practice of theological controversy to refute errors of doctrine. , Howard still captures the essence of confronting sociopolitical so·ci·o·po·li·ti·cal adj. Involving both social and political factors. sociopolitical Adjective of or involving political and social factors themes. It is within this contribution that Why Sleeping Dogs Lie is an original approach to writing African American fiction. Joycelyn A. Wilson is an Atlanta writer who is completing her doctoral degree at The University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. . |
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