Black Magic"When Paul Morand tells stories of the modern Negro, he knows his Harlem and his New Orleans--and he also knows his Haiti, his Paris underworld, and his Congo. Being a cultivated Frenchman, a traveller and man-of-the-world, he absorbs from any scene he visits all the colour, perfume, light and motion that it contains, and re-distils them into a superbly effective story. The same flair for exotic effects that characterized his Open all night and Closed all night is applied in this book to a single theme, played with variations through eight stories in widely different settings. This theme is the rich and racy ancestral magic that clings to the modern Negro"--Dust jacket. |
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