Born to Be - Brossura

Gordon, Taylor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0803270526 ISBN 13: 9780803270527

Casa editrice: Bison Books, 1995

Riassunto

Famous in the 1920s as a singer of Negro spirituals, Taylor Gordon was born into the only black family living in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. His rough-and-ready upbringing in that mining boom town is warmly remembered in Born to Be. Gordon describes with panache his early years in the Old West, where he was not aware of racial prejudice. As a boy he carried messages from civic leaders to the town madam, served drinks to the “sports,” and scurried up plenty of excitement. The book shows him leaving Montana for the East, experiencing the arrows of bigotry, chauffeuring for circus impresario John Ringling, and forging a singing career that won him a place in the Harlem Renaissance and an appointment with British royalty. Gordon finally returned to White Sulphur Springs—after an extraordinary career riddled with misfortune. But he was still flourishing at the age of thirty-six, when the autobiographical Born to Be ends.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Thadious M. Davis is a professor of English at Brown University and the author of Nella Larson: Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled.

Product Description:

Book by Gordon Taylor

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bison Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803270526
• ISBN 13: 9780803270527
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236
• Disegnatore: Covarrubias