Hunger's Season Author:Paul H. Wilson Into a seductive landscape of dreamlike intensity come Rico "The Anchorman" Jones and Lot Dundee. Jones was the first black man to be awarded the Silver Star for bravery, a war hero and baseball star of the Negro leagues as famous in his day as Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Marian Anderson. But when Lot, a gifted young jazz musician passing t... more »hrough on his own way toward fame and fortune, happens upon Jones, he finds his childhood hero startlingly changed. And the two men are soon swept up by the wave of terror and violence consuming a small Southern community at the onset of the Civil Rights Movement. A deeply engrossing story, told with lyricism and humor, in which desperate men and fiercely independent women come alive on the page as they fight for survival and self-respect. A novel of passion and insight that deconstructs our popular notions of heroism and illuminates the fears and ambivalence that exist on both sides of the color line in a microcosm of America.« less