Author:James Baldwin
This is the ficional story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine, yet he lives on in this memoir. Written by Hall, his brother and manager, it is in part a subtle and moving study of the treacherous ebb and flow of memory.
Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Just Above My Head explores how Arthur discovers his love for Jimmy - 'with his smile like a lantern and a voice like Saturday nights' - and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love.
A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people
—— Toronto Globe and MailA starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans
—— Dominion (New Zealand)Impressive by any standard
—— The Globe and MailA very good and varied collection, with delightful oddities
—— The TimesUnfailingly honest
—— Sunday TimesAndric possess the rare gift in a historical novelist of creating a period-piece, full of local colour, and at the same time characters who might have been living today
—— Times Literary SupplementJust as the bridge on the Drina brought East and West together so your work has acted as a link, combining the culture of your country with other parts of the planet
—— Göran Liljestrand, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member
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