num_pages: 205
description: My Amputations follows well-read parolee Mason Ellis as he impersonates an African-American novelist named Clarence McKay, whom he has taken hostage. McKay's literary agent plays along, and almost no one who meets the imposter on his worldwide lecture tour can tell the difference between Mason and the author whose identity he has usurped. (Source: Poetry Foundation)
language: English
title: My Amputations
titlecomplete: My Amputations
ratings_count: 22
awards: name: Western States Book Award
publisher: Fiction Collective Two