Book Review

High Cotton (1992)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Writer: Darryl Pickney; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Billed as fiction, Darryl Pinckney's High Cotton is a narrative of a coddled, precocious black youth growing up in a white suburb of Indianapolis that exists in that overpopulated literary limbo somewhere between first novel and autobiographical memoir. C-

Originally posted Mar 26, 1993 Published in issue #163 Mar 26, 1993 Order article reprints
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