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Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster PlaceA world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there - and that they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it's model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream - that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.
"With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
Gloria Naylor (1950-2016) was born in New York City and grew up there. She graduated from Brooklyn College with a BA in English and Yale University with an MA in Afro-American Studies. The Women of Brewster Place, her first novel, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983. Linden Hills (Penguin), Mother Day, Bailey's Cafe, and The Men of Brewster Place are among her other works. Tayari Jones (foreword) is the New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage, which was chosen by Oprah for her Book Club and is a favorite of Barack Obama, as well as Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. She is a professor-at-large at Cornell University and an Emory University professor of creative writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140088298 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140088296 |
| Title | Linden Hills |
| Author | Gloria Naylor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Year published | 1986-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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