Black!
Subtitle: Three Short Novels (Old School Books)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780393315417
Description: Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. "The Dark Messenger" is a short, sizzling novel in which a reporter for a black newspaper discovers that truth and justice are no match for the next handout from the corrupt powers that be. "Yet Princes Follow" and "Yet We Many" are both sardonic crime novellas set in the worlds of the numbers racket and Black Muslims, respectively.

All of them demonstrate the hard-edged, ultra-hip style of realism that was Clarence Cooper's trademark.