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''Buck'' is a memoir by MK Asante, published by Random House/Spiegel & Grau. ''Buck'' tells the story of MK's youth growing up in Philadelphia from the perspective of MK as a teenager. Buck illustrates Asante's struggles with the disintegration of his family and the city's urban decay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Morgan State professor's memoir, Buck makes big splash )〕 Buck is often described as inspirational because it details Asante's discovery of his talent for writing at 16 and his decision to pursue it as a career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Master Storyteller MK Asante keeps it real in the classroom )〕 The paperback edition of ''Buck'' made the Washington Post Bestseller List in 2014 and 2015. ==Critical reception== ''Buck'' was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers 2013 )〕 It was also an ''LA Times'' Summer pick〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography and Memoirs - Los Angeles Times )〕 and received starred reviews from both ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''Booklist''. Buck was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Buck is an Alex Award nominee and a recipient of the In the In The Margins Book Award. Maya Angelou wrote: "''Buck'' is a story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style... Yes, MK Asante, please continue to live, to accept your liberation, to accept how valuable you are to your country and admit that you are very necessary to us all."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maya Angelou on BUCK by MK Asante )〕 NPR reported: “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck Tells of Wild Childhood in Killadelphia )〕 The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote: “Frequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like ''Buck''. Asante () at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Philly’s skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asante’s memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.” The ''San Francisco Book Review'' wrote: "Every fifty years or so, a book is written with the power to change lives and reveal a totally new way of looking at the world. Buck is a work of genius and is such a book. To such writers as Dickens, Twain, Douglas, Lee, Angelou and Kerouac we now add the name Asante."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck: A Memoir - City Book Review )〕 ''Essence magazine'' wrote: “() Asante is the voice of a new generation. . . . You will love nearly everything about Buck.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck - Pinnacle Library Cooperative )〕 Salon (website) wrote: "The debut of a remarkable talent ... Asante’s prose is a fluid blend of vernacular swagger and tender poeticism."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck: A teen drug dealer finds solace in words )〕 ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote: "Asante's noir chronicle is imaginative, powerful, and electric, written with passion and conviction."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck - Pinnacle Library Cooperative )〕 Buffalo News wrote: “Buck is so honest it floats—even while it’s so down-to-earth that the reader feels like an ant peering up from the concrete. It’s a powerful book. . . . Asante is a hip-hop raconteur, a storyteller in the Homeric tradition, an American, a rhymer, a big-thinker singing a song of himself. You’ll want to listen.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck - Pinnacle Library Cooperative )〕 Booklist wrote: “This is an inspiring story about perseverance and finding purpose that is sure to appeal to readers interested in hip-hop, black studies, and American pop culture in general.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck - Pinnacle Library Cooperative )〕 Kirkus Reviews wrote: “The book’s strength lies in Asante’s vibrant, specific observations, and, at times, the percussive prose that captures them. The author’s fluid, filmic images of black urban life feel unique and disturbing.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buck - Pinnacle Library Cooperative )〕 Los Angeles Magazine wrote: "... beautifully written and expertly told ode to the power of art and literature."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reading Tips for Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buck: A Memoir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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