Novels
- All-night Visitors (1969)
- Reflex & Bone Structure (1975)
- Emergency Exit (1979)
- My Amputations (1986)
- Painted Turtle (1987)
- Such Was the Season (1987)
- Dirty Bird Blues (1996)
- One Flesh (2003)
- Thunderclouds in the Forecast (2021)
- The Lurking Place (2021)
Collections
- Fun & Games (1990)
- Chicago Heat (2016)
Non fiction
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Clarence Major Books Overview
All-night Visitors
First published in 1969 in severely abridged form, Clarence Major’s powerful first novel is now available in an unexpurgated paperback edition that restores the full text of his critically acclaimed and controversial work. All Night Visitors is the riveting, erotic, and compelling story of Eli Bolton orphan, college dropout, Vietnam veteran, and sexual voyager as he struggles to establish a meaningful self identity in a chaotic and bigoted world.
My Amputations
Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.
Painted Turtle
first paperback edition of Major’s Zuni novel
Such Was the Season
Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly matriarch of a large black family in Atlanta. Annie Eliza narrates the story of ‘a killer diller’ week, with the homecoming of her nephew, Adam ‘Juneboy’ North, a doctor at Yale who has been gone for more than twenty five years. Following her nephew’s arrival Annie Eliza’s daughter in law declares her intention to run for a seat in the state senate, which is soon disrupted by the threat of scandal involving someone close to her.
Fun & Games
novelist/poet’s first collection of short stories
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