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Category - Fiction / African American Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 10 months ago
Views - 13
Ships From - Virginia
Est. Publication Date - Jun 1983
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Penguin vintage 1st edition 1983. Rare and in great demand. Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.
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The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
ISBN: 9780140066906
Publisher Description
The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a forward by Tayari Jones “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the ...
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