Love is Power, Or Something Like that: Stories

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Graywolf Press, 2013 - Fiction - 199 pages

In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria.

Dark yet disarming, in prose that is tough, vigorous and immediately distinctive, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection from a palpably talented new writer.

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About the author (2013)

A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

Bibliographic information

TitleLove is Power, Or Something Like that: Stories
Love is Power, Or Something Like that: Stories, A. Igoni Barrett
AuthorA. Igoni Barrett
PublisherGraywolf Press, 2013
ISBN0701187395, 9780701187392
Length199 pages
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Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  
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