Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen

Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen

ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST GIFTED AMERICAN WRITERS 'Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such . . . reverence' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten' ALICE WALKER 'There's no diminishing its fierce bloody-and-literal-mindedness' KIRKUS REVIEWS Tillie Olsen carved a permanent place in American literature on the strength of a single book, Tell Me a Riddle in 1962. This collection was widely hailed as a work of genius, in which the voices of ordinary Americans, black and white, male and female, were given their own rhythms and forms of expression. Yonnondio, Olsen's only novel, was begun during the depression and completed in 1974. It tells the story of the Hollbrooks, an itinerant working-class family in America during the thirties. Brutalised by poverty, they struggle to find a space to breathe, to dream and to create a bettter life for their children. Told in compelling, haunting prose, it is a profound and timeless story of the human will to survive.

Feminist author famous for helping aspiring women writers to find a voice * Guardian *
Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten, or never known -- Alice Walker
Tillie Olsen's is a unique voiceFew writers have gained such . . . reverence -- Margaret Atwood
Charged with emotional detail and delivered with an attention to the rhythms of consciousness more rigorous and powerful than most of what is called realism * New York Times *
There's no diminishing its fierce bloody-and-literal-mindedness * Kirkus Reviews *
Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten, or never known * ALICE WALKER *
Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such ... reverence * MARGARET ATWOOD *

Activist and author Tillie Olsen is best known for her prize-winning fiction Tell Me a Riddle and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. She has taught at MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Olsen is an recipient of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, and vegetarian in his naive Russia. His masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, represent what is considered the peak of realistic fiction.

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ISBN 13	9781844085637
ISBN 10	1844085635
Titel	Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio
Autor	Tillie Olsen
Serie	Virago Modern Classics
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Virago Press (Uk)
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-06-12
Seitenanzahl	340
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