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	A Cold Fire Burning Nathan Heard   A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. Shadow is a working-class black man in the ghetto of Newark, NJ. An affair with Terri, a liberal white woman who works at a storefront drug rehab center, begins to throw his sense of the world into turmoil. When the racial and psychosexual tensions inherent in their relationship finally reach the boiling point, Shadow rejects Terri and everything she represents to him and winds up the leader of a rag-tag band of would-be black nationalist urban guerillas. Tragedy ensues when Shadow tries to transform their revolutionary rhetoric into reality on the harsh streets of Newark.   ISBN 1-878923-04-8 trade paper, 146 pp. $10.95
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	Reviews:   "We have read James Baldwin's smoldering fire; we have witnessed Donald Goines' heat and smoke; now it is time to attend to the burning molotov cocktail Nathan Heard thrust into our hands so many years ago–we, too have a choice: let it explode in our faces or fling it away in fear. In either case, believe me, it's going to blow." – Midwest Bookseller   "A gripping, insightful, and wonderfully cynical novel that avoids the obvious clichés and soapboxes ... Black experience novels don't get any better than this." – John Marr, Bay Guardian   "A sexually explicit satire of ignorance in all walks of life. More ambitious and realistic than Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever in that its black male and white female–the novel's problematic couple–come into their relationship with equal helpings of prejudice and minimal stereotypical qualities ..." – African American Review   "Heard's erotically explosive novel is an ambitious and colorful work which looks to analyze as much as entertain on the race issue." – Big Issue   top of page