{"product_id":"the-stone-face-paperback","title":"The Stone Face - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Gardner Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Shatz\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Gardner Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (1927-1974) was a journalist, novelist, and editor. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eLast of the Conquerors\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1948, followed by \u003ci\u003eAnger at Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Face\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReturn to Black America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Shatz\u003c\/b\u003e is the US Editor of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161715183751,"sku":"9781681375168","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9ec5c5a08e59b7365f3f99ac6b79faa9.webp?v=1733283452","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-stone-face-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}