Bayo Ojikutu
BAYO OJIKUTU is the author of 47th Street Black, winner of the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Contest. He currently teaches in the department of English at DePaul University. Ojikutu was born and raised in Chicago, where he still lives.
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Free Burning
eBook | 400 pages | Crown | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49558-7 (0-307-49558-2)
May 26, 2010 | $13.99
Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores...
Written by Bayo Ojikutu
eBook | 400 pages | Crown | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49558-7 (0-307-49558-2)
May 26, 2010 | $13.99
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Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores...
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trade paperback.
47th Street Black
eBook | 432 pages | Crown | Fiction
978-0-307-41962-0 (0-307-41962-2)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.
In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants...
Written by Bayo Ojikutu
eBook | 432 pages | Crown | Fiction
978-0-307-41962-0 (0-307-41962-2)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.
In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Free Burning
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Broadway Books | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-8289-6 (1-4000-8289-7)
October 3, 2006 | $18.95
Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores...
Written by Bayo Ojikutu
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Broadway Books | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-8289-6 (1-4000-8289-7)
October 3, 2006 | $18.95
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Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores...
Also available as an
eBook.
47th Street Black
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Broadway Books | Fiction
978-0-609-80847-4 (0-609-80847-8)
January 7, 2003 | $19.95
The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.
In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants...
Written by Bayo Ojikutu
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Broadway Books | Fiction
978-0-609-80847-4 (0-609-80847-8)
January 7, 2003 | $19.95
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The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.
In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants...
Also available as an
eBook.
