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    612-822-4611

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612-822-4611
Night Hawks

Night Hawks

Johnson, Charles

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1501184393
ISBN13: 9781501184390
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: May 7 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist...comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread (The New York Times Book Review), showcasing his incredible range and resonant voice.

Charles Johnson's Night Hawks presents an eclectic, masterful collection of stories tied together by Buddhist themes and displaying all the grace, heart, and insight for which he has long been known. Spanning genres from science fiction to realism, Johnson's writing, filled with the sort of long, layered sentences you can get happily lost in, conveys a kindness; a sense that all of us...have our own stories (The Seattle Times).

In The Weave, Ieesha and her boyfriend carry out a heist at the salon from which she has just been fired--coming away with thousands of dollars of merchandise in the form of hair extensions. Night Hawks, the titular story, draws on Johnson's friendship with the late playwright August Wilson to construct a narrative about two writers who meet at night to talk. In Kamadhatu, a lonely Japanese abbot has his quiet world upended by a visit from a black American Buddhist whose presence pushes him toward the awakening he has long found elusive. Occupying Arthur Whitfield, about a cab driver who decides to rob the home of a wealthy passenger, reminds readers to be grateful for what they have. And The Night Belongs to Phoenix Jones combines the real-life story of a superhero in the city of Seattle with an invented narrative about an aging English professor who decides to join him.

With precise, elegant, and moving language, Johnson creates an arresting array of indelible moments that show Johnson to be a master of the short form (Library Journal, starred review). Night Hawks is a masterpiece...[that] ultimately offers a message of empowerment and hope (Oprah.com).

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