The Queen of Palmyra: A Novel - Brossura

Gwin, Minrose

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061840327 ISBN 13: 9780061840326

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2010

Riassunto

As she spends more and more time in the home of her grandparents' maid, Zenie, in the segregated South of the 1960s, Florence Forrest develops a sense for how race truly divides her town, but nothing prepares her for the tragedy that occurs after Zenie’s niece, a vibrant college student, comes to stay for the summer. A first novel. Original. 100,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

...a brilliant and compelling novel... The beauty of the prose, the strength of voice and the sheer force of circumstance will hold the reader spellbound from beginning to end.” (Jill McCorkle, author of THE GOING AWAY SHOES)

The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill A Mockingbird....A story about knowing and not knowing, The Queen of Palmyra is finally a testament to the ultimate power of truth and knowledge, language and love. (Lee Smith, author of ON AGATE HILL)

Divert your reader and, and then “clobber” them, advised Flannery O’Connor. In this bold and brilliant book, Minrose Gwin diverts us with the affecting voice of a child and then clobbers us with the ugly truths of our collective past. I can almost hear O’Connor cheering. (Sharon Oard Warner, author of Deep in the Heart)

L'autore:

Minrose Gwin is the author of three novels: The Queen of Palmyra, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; Promise, finalist for the Willie Morris Award in Southern Literature; and The Accidentals.  In her memoir, Wishing for Snow, she writes about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother’s life. Wearing another hat, she has written four books of literary and cultural criticism and history, most recently Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, and coedited The Literature of the American South, a Norton anthology. Minrose began her career as a newspaper reporter. Since then, she has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Like the characters in Promise, she grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi.    

 

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061840327
• ISBN 13: 9780061840326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 394