Daddy Was A Number Runner
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Louise Meriwether has told everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country. . A considerable achievement -- James Baldwin
Beautiful, timeless and relevant -- Jacqueline Woodson
A remarkable heroine. Tough, resourceful, darting around Harlem with the number slips for her father tucked in her middy-blouse pocket, she is, at the same time, vulnerable, innocent, a dreamer . . . The novel's greatest achievement lies in the strong sense of black life that it conveys: the vitality and force behind the despair. It celebrates the positive values of the black experience: the tenderness and love that often underlie the abrasive surface of relationships . . . the humour that has long been an important part of the black survival kit, and the heroism of ordinary folk . . . A most important novel -- Paule Marshall * New York Times Book Review *
A tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood and survival * Publishers Weekly *
Meriwether's writing is beautiful, layered, and gutting * Paris Review *
Beautiful, timeless and relevant -- Jacqueline Woodson
A remarkable heroine. Tough, resourceful, darting around Harlem with the number slips for her father tucked in her middy-blouse pocket, she is, at the same time, vulnerable, innocent, a dreamer . . . The novel's greatest achievement lies in the strong sense of black life that it conveys: the vitality and force behind the despair. It celebrates the positive values of the black experience: the tenderness and love that often underlie the abrasive surface of relationships . . . the humour that has long been an important part of the black survival kit, and the heroism of ordinary folk . . . A most important novel -- Paule Marshall * New York Times Book Review *
A tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood and survival * Publishers Weekly *
Meriwether's writing is beautiful, layered, and gutting * Paris Review *
Louise Meriwether is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist. In 1970, she published her first and critically acclaimed book, Daddy Was a Number Runner (with an introduction by James Baldwin), using autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance. She has since written short stories that have appeared in Antioch Review and Negro Digest, as well as biographies for children about historically important African Americans, including Robert Smalls, Daniel Hale Williams, and Rosa Parks. Meriwether has also taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Houston.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349015927 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349015929 |
| Titel | Daddy Was A Number Runner |
| Autor | Louise Meriwether |
| Serie | Virago Modern Classics |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-06-03 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
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