Roadwalkers by Shirley Ann Grau

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During the Depression, Baby and her abandoned siblings are roadwalkers, homeless wanderers foraging for existence across the rural South. "Rescued" by a kindly white man and placed with nuns in New Orleans, Baby is renamed Mary Woods and grows up to find success as a dressmaker and painter.

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Roadwalkers by Shirley Ann Grau

During the Depression, Baby and her abandoned siblings are roadwalkers, homeless wanderers foraging for existence across the rural South. "Rescued" by a kindly white man and placed with nuns in New Orleans, Baby is renamed Mary Woods and grows up to find success as a dressmaker and painter.
Shirley Ann Grau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nine novels and short story collections, whose work is set primarily in her native South. Her novels include Roadwalkers, The House on Coliseum Street, The Hard Blue Sky, The Condor Passes, Evidence of Love, and The Keepers of the House, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New Orleans and on Martha's Vineyard.
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ISBN 13 9780807129135
ISBN 10 0807129135
Title Roadwalkers
Author Shirley Ann Grau
Series Voices Of The South S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 2003-07-01
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.