Crabcakes: A Memoir

With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years. From Baltimore, Maryland, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Iowa and Japan, Crabcakes witnesses McPherson's confrontation with the past, and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present. His elliptical search for meaning -- and his ultimate understanding of what makes us human -- finds in Crabcakes a powerful and enduring voice.

Author: James Alan McPherson
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/27/1999
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.56w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780684847962
ISBN10: 0684847965
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
James Alan McPherson is the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review, and Double-Take -- and anthologies such as volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories. McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa C