James McBride

eBook, ePUB

Five-Carat Soul (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
'McBride at his brave and joyous best'
New York Times Book Review

'A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places'
San Francisco Chronicle

An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by a Civil War General now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their messy and hilarious lives.

These stories spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. A collection of surprising, perceptive and evocative short stories from internationally bestselling novelist James McBride, Five Carat Soul is a moving exploration of our human condition.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.62MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Entspricht WCAG Level AA Standards
• Entspricht WCAG 2.2 Standards
• Seitennavigation basierend auf Print- oder digitalen Seiten
• Sehr hoher Kontrast zwischen Text und Hintergrund (min. 7 =>1)
• Alle Texte können hinsichtlich Größe, Schriftart und Farbe angepasst werden
• Navigation über vor-/zurück-Elemente ohne Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Hoher Kontrast zwischen Text und Hintergrund (min. 4.5 =>1)
• Seitennummerierung folgt dem gedruckten Werk
• Kurze Alternativtexte für nicht-textuelle Inhalte vorhanden
• Text und Medien in logischer Lesereihenfolge angeordnet
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien
• Keine Einschränkung der Vorlesefunktionen, außer bei spezifischen Ausnahmen

Autor

James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird , the No 1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water , and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna . He is also the author of Kill 'Em and Leave , a James Brown biography. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2016, McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399632492
• Artikelnr.: 72843871

Rezensionen

"These brilliant miniatures display all of the rambunctious fearlessness of [McBride's] deeply empathetic imagination... Five-Carat Soul [is] a delight." -New York Times Book Review

"Brash, daring and defiantly original... [these] stories are bound to stay with readers for a very long time." -NPR

"A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places." -San Francisco Chronicle

"A vivid, often funny story collection that examines serious topics like race, war, history, and self-identity-all with a deft hand and a fluid, musical voice." -Entertainment Weekly

"The stories are diverse enough in style, theme and milieu to keep one's head thoroughly engaged... Serious fun."

-Newsday

"The author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird possesses a biting wit, but disarms it with his calm, plainspoken style... A consummate entertainer, McBride has the comic energy and antic spirit of Richard Pryor." -Chicago Tribune

"If there's a mode in which McBride can't write brilliantly, he has yet to prove it." -Vulture

"The characters are disparate, but McBride is such an agile writer that each voice feels authentic and somehow familiar. Taken together the stories speak, if not directly to one another, to a greater humanity and wisdom we all desire... These are stories of and from the soul." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune

[A] jazzy, generous spirit animates [Five-Carat Soul]... McBride succeeds by tempering absurdity with insight, and camp with poignancy." -Financial Times

"Five-Carat Soul by James McBride covers a lot of ground, all of it unpredictable, exhilarating, and, often, hilarious. The short stories bounce from one unlikely protagonist to the next ... I loved these stories individually; all together they make for a wild and utterly delightful ride." -BuzzFeed

"The short stories in this collection from National Book Award winner James McBride (The Good Lord Bird) range widely, from the Civil War to the Vietnam War and from the animal world to a toy train set, but all are poignant, imaginative, and 'literary' in the best sense of the word." -Christian Science Monitor

"McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana with his new book of charmed, imaginative short stories... [He] lets his sense of whimsy run wild in this collection... the results once again are funny, strange and touching." -Seattle Times

"McBride is one of this country's best writers, and that has never been more apparent than here, in his first short story collection... McBride's writing practically shimmers with energy and charm, making reading him a singular pleasure." -Nylon

"Hilarious, charming, and unlike anything else you'll read this year, these stories show more about the human psyche than one could possibly imagine." -PopSugar

"This collection of inventive and exuberant stories comes packed with singular voices, outlandish exploits and rare insight." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"McBride gives us [a] mix of hilarity and poignant truth in his collection of short stories, Five-Carat Soul... The ones that clarify injustice by making it hit us just as we are laughing the hardest-those stories are evidence of McBride's genius." -The Christian Century

"McBride delivers pure gold... Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom. Readers should put aside any prejudices they might harbor about short fiction because together these stories are a masterpiece that will enrich everyone it touches." -Shelf Awareness (starred review)

"Humming with invention and energy, the stories collected in McBride's first fiction book since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird again affirm his storytelling gifts... McBride adopts a variety of dictions without losing his own distinctly supple, musical voice; as identities shift, 'truths' are challenged, and justice is done or, more often, subverted." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Each t

Praise for Five-Carat Soul:

These brilliant miniatures display all of the rambunctious fearlessness of [McBride's] deeply empathetic imagination... Five-Carat Soul [is] a delight. The New York Times Book Review

Brash, daring and defiantly original... [these] stories are bound to stay with readers for a very long time. NPR

A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places. San Francisco Chronicle

Serious fun. Newsday

McBride is such an agile writer that each voice feels authentic and somehow familiar. These are stories of and from the soul. Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Unpredictable, exhilarating, and, often, hilarious. ... a wild and utterly delightful ride. BuzzFeed

Poignant, imaginative, and 'literary' in the best sense of the word. Christian Science Monitor

Funny, strange and touching. McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana. Seattle Times

McBride delivers pure gold... Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom. Shelf Awareness (starred review)