LEADER 00000nim a22007455i 4500 001 MWT15708471 003 MWT 005 20230227094256.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 230206s2016 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781427273802|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1427273804|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT15708471 037 15708471|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda|beng 082 04 813/.54|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 LaValle, Victor,|d1972-|eauthor. 245 14 The ballad of Black Tom /|cVictor LaValle. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bMacmillan Audio,|c2016. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 09 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by Kevin R. Free. 520 People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his black skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their trained cops. But when he delivers an occult page to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? "LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft's Dagon... [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending." - Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction "[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction." --Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 African American men|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vFiction. 650 0 Magic|vFiction. 650 0 Doorways|vFiction. 650 0 Nineteen twenties|vFiction. 651 0 New York (N.Y.)|xHistory|y1898-1951|vFiction. 700 1 Free, Kevin R.,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 914 MWT15708471