{"product_id":"9781617753961","title":"The System of Dante's Hell","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e....Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Baraka's language conveys the feelings of fear, violation, and fury with a surprising potency. A pungent and lyrical portrait of mid-'60s black protest.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e: violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet's skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul--lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037951607024,"sku":"9781617753961","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617753961_p0.jpg?v=1763856828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617753961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}