Cane by Jean Toomer [1969 PAPERBACK] • Perennial Classics

Cane by Jean Toomer

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1969] HARPER & ROW PERENNIAL CLASSICS  

Vintage paperback with matte cover design in very good condition. 

Clean, tight copy with some shelf / edge wear to cover.

 Reads like new with a hint of tanning. Tiny signature of orig. owner on front endpaper.

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.