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      The System of Dante's Hell

      by Amiri Baraka
      Published
      Feb 2016
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      160
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      This 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's Inferno: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet's skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul--lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive. With a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Coming of Age

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      African-American

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      First Edition Feb 2016 Akashic Books ISBN 1617753963
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      Feb 2016 Akashic Books ISBN B0150SC7WA
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