City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher

By John A. McCluskey, John McCluskey, Rudolph Fisher

One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher wrote short stories depicting the multifaceted black urban experience that are still acclaimed today for their humor, grace, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826207863
• ISBN13: 9780826207869
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good read.

This book of short stories about Harlem in the 1920's proved to be quite satisfying. His characters seemed real, his stories were interesting, and his use of the English language (both slang and proper) was excellent. His plots were different as the stories and sometimes the good guys won and sometimes they didn't as in real life. There were a few characters I would have liked to have set down and talked to, like the Grandma who stopped a fight between her grandsons by pitching her Bible through the window. It's too bad Fisher died young, I imagine he had many more stories to tell.