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      The First Thing Smoking

      by Nelson Eubanks
      Published
      Aug 2003
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      224
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      In dazzling, jazzlike prose that pulses with the rhythm of the street, Nelson Eubanks traces the influences on and evolution of Maceo, from impressionable adolescent to twentysomething man—each interconnected story is a snapshot of memory bursting with emotion.

      In "Malta Scheffer," nine-year-old Maceo slips out of a white world of private schools to fade back into his brown world, where stickball and dreams of glory just may provide the ticket out of poverty. "The First Thing Smoking" explores the prejudice and hatred that exist within a family, when skin color varies between darker and lighter shades of black. "Avenida Atlântica" depicts an older Maceo, now in Brazil, as he tries to escape his growing awareness of lust and desire as well as the racial strife and violence of his childhood.

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      Jul 2004 One World ISBN13 9780345451798 ISBN10 0345451791
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      First Edition Aug 2003 One World ISBN13 9780345451781 ISBN10 0345451783
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