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    The Last Temptation Of Sun Ra A Fable by Marc Kaplan

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    Like Sun Ra, Marc Kaplan is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. 'The Last Temptation of Sun Ra', his first novel, imagines the return of Ra (aka Sonny Blount) to his home-town, a Birmingham rocked by demonstrations and discord, but Sonny has returned for other, more personal reasons. Meanwhile, a second narrative explores the separate world of white Birmingham, a world that collides with black Birmingham in the aftermath of a traditional children's minstrel show which Sonny revises in a most untraditional way....