The novel follows the exploits of his family, who are trying their best to save Anthony, but who might be in need of a little saving themselves. Anthony is a morbidly obese college dropout who may also be experiencing the first signs of schizophrenia. The novel continues the story of Anthony James, a character from LaValle's collection of stories. The Ecstatic was published in 2002 by Crown Publishing Group. It won the author a PEN Open Book Award and the Key to Jamaica, Queens.
The collection went on to receive wide critical praise. The eleven interconnected stories deal mostly with the lives of young black and Latino men living in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Slapboxing with Jesus was published in 1999 by Vintage Books. He attended Woodmere Academy and went on to earn a degree in English from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Victor LaValle was born on February 3, 1972, and raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York by a single mother who had emigrated from Uganda in her twenties.
LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among other publications. His fantasy- horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author.
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