Lord of Dark Places
Hal Zina Bennett. Turtle Point Press, $14.95 (286pp) ISBN 978-1-885983-12-1
A 1970 cult classic about a Southern black man's coming-of-age in the 1950s and '60s. (May)
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Reviewed on: 12/30/1996
Genre: Fiction
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