Books by Alice Randall and Complete Book Reviews
Alice Randall, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (210p) ISBN 978-0-618-13309-3
On April 20, barely a month before the scheduled publication of Randall's retelling of Gone with the Wind
from a slave's perspective, a federal district court in Atlanta pulled the plug, ruling that the first-time author had engaged in "
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Alice Randall, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-618-45659-8
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PUSHKIN AND THE QUEEN OF SPADES
Alice Randall
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Alice Randall, Author . Bloomsbury $25 (370p) ISBN 978-1-59691-668-5
What starts off as a drive from Nashville to Birmingham quickly moves across the globe as Randall (The Wind Done Gone
) unravels the life of Abel Jones. “The day Abel was born, sweet tucked deep in the dark South, Langston Hughes, out west on...
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Alice Randall. Bloomsbury, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60819-827-6
It is impossible not to fall in love with the plucky plus-size heroine of bestselling author Randall’s fourth outing (after Rebel Yell). When Ada Howard—wife of Lucius “Preach” Howard, the pastor of Nashville’s Full Love Gospel Tabernacle (whom Ada...
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Alice Randall. Amistad, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-296862-3
Randall returns to adult fiction (after The Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess) with a sprawling and intimate genre-bending chronicle of the adventures and tribulations of the extraordinary real-life Detroit emcee and theater director Joseph “Z
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Alice Randall. Black Privilege, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-66801-840-8
Novelist Randall (Black Bottom Saints) unearths the buried roots of Black country music in this intermittently insightful blend of memoir and cultural history. At eight years old, Randall moved with her mother from Detroit to Washington, D.C., where
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