Becoming Abigail

Author: Chris Abani
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B008SBHGXC

Becoming Abigail

A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand. Get Becoming Abigail literature books for free.
/i>"Abani is a fiction writer of mature and bounteous gifts . . . Becoming Abigail is more compressed and interior [than GraceLand], a poetic treatment of terror and loneliness . . . its sharp focus on the devastation of one young woman, has a deeper kind of resonance . . . Abani, himself incarcerated and tortured for his writings and activism in Nigeria in the mid-'80s, writes about the body's capacity for both ecstasy and pain with an honesty and precision rarely encountered in recent fiction . . . This is a powerful, harrowing work, made more so because, while much of the narrative seems to be a vortex of affliction, Abigail's destin Check Becoming Abigail our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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/i>"Abani is a fiction writer of mature and bounteous gifts . . . Becoming Abigail is more compressed and interior [than GraceLand], a poetic treatment of terror and loneliness This is a powerful, harrowing work, made more so because, while much of the narrative seems to be a vortex of affliction, Abigail's destin

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