Colored People
Gates, Henry Louis Jr
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation. A winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling
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Year:
2011
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0307764435
ISBN 13:
9780307764430
File:
EPUB, 1.91 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011