Elbow room
Subtitle: stories
By: by James Alan McPherson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Working class -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Twelve stories explore the borders between black and white America as they are crossed and known by students and Peace Corps volunteers of the 1960s, failed preachers, young punks, jealous lovers, and others.
Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Table of contents: title: Why I like country music.; title: The story of a dead man.; title: The silver bullet.; title: The faithful.; title: Problems of art.; title: The story of a scar.; title: I am an American.; title: Widows and orphans.; title: A loaf of bread.; title: Just enough for the city.; title: A sense of story.; title: Elbow room.