Cotton

By: Christopher Wilson

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Paperback | 2 October 2006

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320 Pages

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19.68 x 13.34 x 1.91

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Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee’s first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Before he returns to Mississippi, he will experience up close and personal the women’s liberation movement and the dawn of the Lesbian Nation.

Lee Cotton’s voice—equal parts Delta Blues and Motown—takes us on an exhilarating freedom ride through America’s preoccupation with identity politics. His funny, forgiving charm ultimately embodies a serious message: The freaks and oddities of this world may well be divine.

Industry Reviews

PRAISE FOR COTTON "Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--TheWashington Post Book World

"[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, People PRAISEFOR COTTON "Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--TheWashington Post Book World

"[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, People " PRAISEFOR "COTTON ""Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--"TheWashington Post Book World " "[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, "People " " PRAISE FOR "COTTON ""Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--"TheWashington Post Book World " "[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, "People " PRAISE FOR "COTTON ""Huck Finn meets Myra Breckinridge? Candide meets Yossarian? . . . [Lee Cotton] is, paradoxically, a complete original."--"TheWashington Post Book World " "[Wilson's ] sense of humor and snappy pacing make this an appealing tale of a bygone America where truly anything can happen."--Allison Lynn, "People "

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