The Vulture & The Nigger Factory
1999
First Published
3.98
Average Rating
496
Number of Pages
"Gil Scott-Heron's highly successful two novels from the early Seventies are packaged together for the first time. Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high, The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller. Relating the story of John Lee's murder through the words of four men, the reasons behind the death of the teenager slowly begin to emerge." "The Nigger Factory is a scornful statement on the way in which human beings are conditioned to think. On the campus of Sutton University, Virginia, the students are trying to carry forth the message of reconstruction to a university resistant to change. The failure of Sutton to embrace the changing attitudes of the Sixties has necessitated extreme action and the revolution is nigh."—BOOK JACKET.
Avg Rating
3.98
Number of Ratings
55
5 STARS
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Author
Gil Scott-Heron
Author · 7 books
Gilbert Scott Heron was born in 1949. His mother was a librarian and his father a soccer player from Jamaica. In his youth Heron displayed both sporting prowess and academic ability (he won a place at Pennsylvania Lincoln University, like his role model Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance man). But he quit college after the first year to write his first novel, The Vulture (1970). While Heron was writing this the ferment of black politics and student radicalism was coming to a head, and his second novel The Nigger Factory (1972) reflects these developments. Heron has been more adventurous in his work as a musician and rapper.
