Winner of the 1970 海角乱伦社区Short Fiction Award
The Chicago settings for the stories in The Beach Umbrella range from ghetto existence to the 茅lite monde of the Hyde Park-Kenwood black community. Writer David Ray says Colter's work 鈥渓ike that of Sherwood Anderson, or of Nelson Algren, will change the way people think about Chicago.鈥 Colter chooses black men and women at various social levels to illustrate the dreams, foibles, and fears of every man. His studies of everyday crises and interpersonal relationships contain an insight about life itself, one that comes from years of what Lucien Stryk has called 鈥渃ompassionate observation.鈥 The Beach Umbrella was selected by novelists Vance Bourjaily and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to receive the first 海角乱伦社区School of Letters Award for Short Fiction.
