John Woman / Walter Mosley.

First edition, first Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2018.

©2018

377 pages ; 23 cm

BEIN JWJ Zan M854 2018J: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "18 19 20 21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Dust jacket.

At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past.

Online version: Mosley, Walter. John Woman. First edition. New York : Grove Press, 2018

English

October 15, 2018