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Live at fiveDavid Haynes

Live at five

1996267 pages
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In Live at Five, Haynes turns our expectations of television and ourselves upside down through the story of several remarkable people on both sides of the camera. Brandon Wilson anchors a television newscast that is regularly trounced by reruns of "The Facts of Life." When a new producer, hell-bent on raising channel 13's ratings, decides that his middle-class African-American anchor with a penthouse isn't "black" enough, he has a brainstorm: Brandon is to redefine himself by doing a series from a new home in the inner city. There Brandon meets Nita, who manages an apartment building in…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 1997
    Harcourt Brace · 267 pages · 9780156005036
  • Other · English · 1996
    Milkweed Editions · 267 pages · 9781571310095
FictionTelevision news anchorsSingle mothersAfrican AmericansFiction, generalAfrican americans, fictionNew York Times reviewed