First Light by Toni Cade Bambara
At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara's powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta's missing children.
Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy when she awakens one summer’s morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As she takes to the streets to track down what happened to him, Zala is drawn into the nightmare of a city stalked by fear.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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We Were Forbidden
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Paradises Lost
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In Praise of Prejudice
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Things: A Story of the Sixties
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Mouse Folk
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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Culture Counts
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Kew Gardens
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Monkey Business
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Masks
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
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Passing
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A Gentle Spirit and a Faint Heart
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Fighters & Martyrs
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A Souvenir of Japan
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
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The Cat
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Sally Bowles
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Woman of Genius
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Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)
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Behind a Mask
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The Invisible Girl
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Pinball, 1973
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The Dead
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The Dunwich Horror
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Tender Buttons
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Bartleby, The Scrivener
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Laura
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The Parasite
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The Third Man
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The Poet
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The Master of Go
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Distant Star
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Bewitched
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The Fatal Eggs
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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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An Undesirable Friend
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Dracula's Guest
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Lady Susan
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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Down by the Riverside
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Ape and Essence
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Sunday's Children
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The Case of the Late Pig
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Cain
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Young at the Time
Author, teacher, activist and filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara was born in Harlem, New York in 1939. After graduating from Queens College in 1959, she worked as a social investigator, and then in the psychiatry department of New York City's Metropolitan Hospital. She studied acting and mime in Florence and Paris, received an MA in 1964 from City College of New York, and went on to lecture in English at CUNY, Livingston College, and other universities. Bambara's involvement in the Black liberation and women's movements led her to edit and publish one of the first major anthologies of Black women's writing, The Black Woman, in 1970; the following year she published a collection of folktales, Tales and Stories for Black Folks, which celebrated what she dubbed 'Our Great Kitchen Tradition'. In 1972, Bambara published her debut collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love, and then, in 1980, her first novel, The Salt Eaters, which won the American Book Award and the Langston Hughes Society Award. Upon her death in 1995, The New York Times praised Bambara as 'a major contributor to the emerging genre of contemporary black women's literature'. Her legacy was recognised with a posthumous induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2013.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781529985993 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529985994 |
| Title | First Light |
| Author | Toni Cade Bambara |
| Series | Brief Encounters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Classics |
| Year published | 2026-07-02 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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