Quilting by Lucille Clifton
In the future, some things never change. Sarah Kirushenko is a human child like any other, despite an extreme IQ. Just because she studies classes eight years more advanced than her peers doesn't mean her favorite hobby isn't raising hell with her gang of older brothers, or that she's not stuck watching her baby brother, or getting into bloody fights with her hateful little sister. All she wants is to break the record and have a diploma before her tenth birthday. But the year 2263 is no shining star for Sarah and her many siblings. Dragged around the galaxy by their archeologist father, they harbor a shocking load of secrets. No one ever planned on bad luck, but tragedy and violence have stalked their family for generations. Trapped on the blistering wastelands of Navara, far from the Russian home they long for, things are quickly going from bad to unbearable. When it seems like nothing can possibly get worse, Father is arrested for murder. Can twelve children raise themselves on an alien world? Will Sarah survive with her education - and her sanity - intact?
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) was the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, as well as the 2010 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Her final poetry collection, Voices, was published by BOA in September 2008. She was an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children's books. Her poetry book, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, and, Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, the only author ever to have done so, while Clifton's, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Award. Clifton received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; the Shelley Memorial Prize; and the Charity Randall Citation. She served as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College in Maryland. She was appointed a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected as Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780918526816 |
| ISBN 10 | 0918526817 |
| Title | Quilting |
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| Series | American Poets Continuum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Boa Editions Ltd. |
| Year published | 2000-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 89 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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