All-Night Visitors; Author: Major, Clarence; Introduction: Bell, Bernard W.; Paperback

Author: Major, Clarence; Introduction: Bell, Bernard W.
(Abridged); Northeastern Library of Black Literature; Paperback
256 pages
Published: August 2000
Northeastern University Press
ISBN: 1555534287

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 drop-out, Vietnam veteran, and sexual voyager -- as he struggles to establish a meaningful self-identity in a chaotic and bigoted world.A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts to grow up in a hostile world.