Love for Sale: And Other Essays
Winner of the 2012 Nonfiction Contest, selected by Phillip Lopate
US List Price: $17.95
Buy NowLove for Sale: And Other Essays
Winner of the 2012 Nonfiction Contest, selected by Phillip Lopate
US List Price: $17.95
Buy NowAbout the Book
In his first nonfiction collection, Thompson muses on different art forms and their relation to his own experiences as an African-American in the post-Civil Rights era.
Praise for Love for Sale: And Other Essays
Clifford Thompson’s eclectic collection of personal reflections and commentaries on books, music, film and art reveals clarifying perceptions about American culture in a compelling voice of enthusiasm, honesty, humility and balance.”
—San Antonio Express-NewsThe triumph of this deeply satisfying essay collection is its presentation of a whole human being: immensely cultivated, likable because unfailingly honest, reasonable, mature, witty, and never less than eloquent. Clifford Thompson’s perspective is that of a humane African-American male who is wary of any condescending sentimentality or group-rant, who loves jazz, movies, books, and the oddities of daily life. His prose style is consistently thoughtful, surprising and unobtrusively elegant, and the voice navigates with remarkable smoothness between personal experience and critical analysis. With this selection, he vaults to the front ranks of essayists of his generation.
—Phillip Lopate