Literary Works
About the author...
Anthony Starke has been acting, writing short stories, poetry and screenplays for over twenty-five years. "A Coal To His Lips," his first full length novel, was originally published by 1st Books as an e-book.
Reviews
"A Coal To His Lips" is Anthony Starke's intense and gripping first novel. It combines a poetic yet restrained use of language, a concise, driven narrative, vibrant character development, and the sort of solid, lucid, philosophical underpinnings found in the works of Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, and Paul Bowles. At its core, "A Coal To His Lips" is a mystical, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying, always engaging examination of the problem of identity.
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"A Coal To His Lips" is the story of Henry Norman, a young, imprisoned African-American man who undergoes a spiritual/psychological transformation in the novel. He finds that he has an unmanageably powerful (and sometimes unwanted) effect on those around him.
Henry's struggle, and ultimate triumph, is to learn to integrate a greater understanding of his true nature while learning to accept and honor the boundaries of his life as an ex-con and, by the end of the book, his roles as son, friend, lover, husband and father.
©2009 Anthony Starke@conadv.com.
©2009 Book cover courtesy of Aida Djikic.
©2009 Photo courtesy of Deb Vancelette Photography
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