World of Nothing: Two Novellas
by Ronald Fair

Fair’s third major work of fiction, World of Nothing (1970), is a pair of novellas. “Jerome,” his most experimental piece, revisits the fantasy genre to explore religious hypocrisy. The second novella, “World of Nothing,” consists of a series of bittersweet episodic sketches related by an anonymous first-person narrator. —The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature