KING COMUS

With this publication of the novel King Comus, William Demby caps his already great literary achievements as the author of the now classic novels Beetlecreek (1950), The Catacombs (1965), and Love Story Black (1978). The product of twenty years of literary labor, King Comus was completed in 2007, and remained in manuscript form at the time Demby died in 2013. The last of the Black no velists who served in World War II, Demby was honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. In King Comus, W illiam Demby employs...[Leer más]