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  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    (A Perennial Classic, 1969, Jan. 1, 1969)
    Perfect spine. Bright clean cover has slight edge wear. 9 pages have random small notes and marks in margins. Does not effect readability. Same day shipping first class from AZ.
  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1988)
    None
  • Cane

    Jean / edited by Darwin T. Turner Toomer

    (Norton Critical Edition, 1988, Jan. 1, 1988)
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  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    (Dreamscape Media Llc, March 1, 2013)
    Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
  • Cane

    TOOMER J

    (AWB, Jan. 1, 2012)
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  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    Paperback (W.W. Norton, Jan. 1, 2011)
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  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    eBook (iOnlineShopping.com, Aug. 16, 2019)
    Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has been classified as a composite novel or as a short story cycle. Though some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details.The ambitious, nontraditional structure of the novel – and its later influence on future generations of writers – have helped Cane gain status as a classic of modernism. Several of the vignettes have been excerpted or anthologized in literary collections, perhaps most famously the poetic passage "Harvest Song", included in several Norton poetry anthologies. The poem opens with the line: "I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown."A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.
  • Cane illustrated

    Jean Toomer

    eBook (, Sept. 17, 2020)
    Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue.
  • Cane

    Jean Toomer, Ron Butler, Brilliance Audio

    Audiobook (Brilliance Audio, Dec. 3, 2019)
    A striking mosaic of prose, poetry, and dramatic dialogue, Jean Toomer’s Cane has come to be considered a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. Structured as a series of vignettes ripe with longing, passion, violence, and revenge, the haunting novel gives a powerful voice to the interior lives of African Americans in the rural South and urban North. Championed for its unsparing honesty and psychological insight by such luminaries as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou, Cane shines as a beacon to generations of African-American writers who followed. Revised edition: Previously published as Cane, this edition of Cane (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    eBook (, Sept. 6, 2020)
    Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer focused on the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States, told alternately in prose, poetry, and play-like passages. Although at the time it was published it was not widely read, it was generally praised by both black and white critics.
  • Cane

    Jean Toomer

    Paperback (Wisehouse Classics, Sept. 3, 2020)
    Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has been classified as a composite novel or as a short story cycle. Though some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details. The ambitious, nontraditional structure of the novel – and its later influence on future generations of writers – have helped Cane gain status as a classic of modernism. Several of the vignettes have been excerpted or anthologized in literary collections; the poetic passage "Harvest Song" has been included in multiple Norton poetry anthologies. The poem opens with the line: "I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown."
  • Cane

    Jane Toomer, Andrea Giordani, MuseumAudiobooks.com

    Audiobook (MuseumAudiobooks.com, Jan. 21, 2020)
    Cane is a 1923 classical modernist novel by the Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The work is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. They alternate in structure between prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue to form a composite novel or a short story cycle. Most vignettes stand on their own but there are recurring characters and situations, and a thematic and contextual connection throughout. The "Harvest Song" passage has been included in poetry anthologies while several other vignettes have been anthologized in literary collections.