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Known as the "godfather of rap" and an innovator of spoken-word soul music with songs like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron wrote his first novel, The Vulture, while he was still a student at Lincoln University. First published to critical acclaim in 1970, it offers "a fascinating portrait of late 60s New York" with the same heart, wit, and urgent social commentary expressed in his music (Mojo).
The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller, set in lower Manhattan. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee-told through the words of four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen.
The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller, set in lower Manhattan. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee-told through the words of four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen.
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Reviews
"For more than two decades, [Gil Scott-Heron] has been committed to examining those facts of the human condition that most of us would rather forget."
The Washington Post
"Drenched with the dark overtones of America's underworld, battered by the storms of politics and race. They are as sexy as they are psychotic."
City Life, on the novels of Gil Scott-Heron
"They are impressive and ambitious works that vigorously mix street savvy and intellectual flair."
GQ, on the novels of Gil Scott-Heron