· Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.” —Essence “Bombingham is a considerable achievement [that marks] the emergence of a brave and promising talent.” —The Washington PostBrand: Random House Publishing Group. “Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.” —Essence “Bombingham is a considerable achievement [that marks] the emergence of a brave and promising talent.” —The Washington PostAuthor: Anthony Grooms. “Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.” —Essence “Bombingham is a considerable achievement [that marks] the emergence of a brave and promising talent.” —The Washington PostAuthor: Anthony Grooms.
In the story Bombingham by Anthony Grooms, he tells us the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham and how it affected every colored family. He focused it on one family and how they struggled through the hard times of it even though they were having familyproblems. Anthony told us the s. Bombingham: A Novel|Anthony Grooms, Cityscapes + Birdmen - J.M. Wessels|Various, Funds: Private Equity, Hedge and All Core Structures (The Wiley Finance Series)|Matthew Hudson, The Keys to Remember|Jodine Turner. By Anthony Grooms. pp. One World/Ballantine, In Bombingham, Anthony Grooms tells a Vietnam story from the perspective of an African American soldier, and a civil rights story from the perspective of a Birmingham family who are divided by different responses to the movement, challenging readers to see beyond simplified versions of these events.
Bombingham, the debut novel by American poet Anthony Grooms, follows Walter Burke, a nineteen-year-old African-American soldier in Vietnam. The suffering he witnesses in combat causes him to relive his childhood in Birmingham, Alabama during the most violent phase of the Civil Rights Movement. Anthony Grooms began his enviable career with the marvelous novel, BOMBINGHAM, that informed the reader that often some of the truest history of Americans is told in the stories of those who live at the periphery of the big historical goings-on. Now, with his new novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, Grooms continues with that special way of seeing human history with the journey of Lonnie Henson, a white boy in rural Bethany, Georgia, at the end of World War II. n his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The juxtaposition is so powerful—between war-torn Vietnam and.
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