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Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and '30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a boy, Amerigo Jones. This unique and vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community.
Amerigo is just discovering, but not really understanding, racial prejudice. Like any growing boy, he is also learning about sexuality, art, literature, and life itself. He is a dreamer, and yet it is clear that many of his dreams will not come true, not because of who he is, but because of the color of his skin.
Completed in the 1960s, Vincent Carter was unable to find a publisher for his ambitious book, in part because it did not fit what publishers were looking for in the way of "Negro literature." But when Richard Wright's widow, Ellen, read it, she could hardly contain her enthusiasm, and finally said simply that such a tableau of childhood by a black man had never been done. By 1970 Carter had given up trying to find a publisher. He died in 1983, and his work came perilously close to disappearing without a trace.
Amerigo is just discovering, but not really understanding, racial prejudice. Like any growing boy, he is also learning about sexuality, art, literature, and life itself. He is a dreamer, and yet it is clear that many of his dreams will not come true, not because of who he is, but because of the color of his skin.
Completed in the 1960s, Vincent Carter was unable to find a publisher for his ambitious book, in part because it did not fit what publishers were looking for in the way of "Negro literature." But when Richard Wright's widow, Ellen, read it, she could hardly contain her enthusiasm, and finally said simply that such a tableau of childhood by a black man had never been done. By 1970 Carter had given up trying to find a publisher. He died in 1983, and his work came perilously close to disappearing without a trace.
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VINCENT O. CARTER was born in Kansas City in 1924. At seventeen he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He landed on a Normandy beachhead and took part in the drive toward Paris. Back in the United States, he earned a college degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and spent a graduate year at Wayne State in Detroit. Eventually he returned to Europe, spending time in Paris, Munich, and Amsterdam before settling in Bern, where he spent the rest of his life in a sort of self-imposed exile. His only work published during his lifetime was The Bern Book: A Record of the Voyage of the Mind (1973), a memoir of his life in the Swiss capital during the 1950s. He completed a draft manuscript for Such Sweet Thunder in 1963. Despite receiving enthusiastic support from some in the literary world, the manuscript did not deliver what publishers expected from “Negro literature” at the time, and after enduring a round of rejections Carter shelved the project. He died in Bern in 1983.
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