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Hungered One, AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series

“A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people” (The New York Times Book Review).

Award-winning playwright Ed Bullins received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play The Taking of Miss Janie, and is also renowned for such works as In the Wine Time and Clara’s Ole Man. In this collection of his early short fiction, he explores themes of loneliness and despair and the African American experience in beautifully crafted stories.

“For true students and fans of American and African American literature of the 1960s and ’70s, Ed Bullins is one of our indisputable heavyweight champs.” —Kevin Powell, author and activist

Ed Bullins, Amiri Baraka

Ed Bullins has written numerous plays and fiction, including In the Wine Time, Goin? a Buffalo, Clara?s Ole Man, and The Taking of Miss Janie, which received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of the 1974-75 season. His book of short fiction, The Hungered One: Early Writings, was published in 1971.

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