Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307778002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina. "Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
Gorilla, My Love
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307778002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina. "Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307778002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Fifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, from uptown New York to rural North Carolina. "Bambara grabs you by the throat ... she dazzles, she charms." —Chicago Daily News A young girl suffers her first betrayal. A widow flirts with an elderly blind man against the wishes of her grown-up children. A neighborhood loan shark teaches a white social worker a lesson in responsibility. And there is more. Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience.
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410347168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410347168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Raymond's Run
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623236199
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A story about Squeaky, the fastest thing on two feet, and her brother Raymond.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623236199
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A story about Squeaky, the fastest thing on two feet, and her brother Raymond.
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410351033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410351033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Lesson," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
The Salt Eaters
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307778010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307778010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review). Though they all united in their search for the healing properties of salt, some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring. From the men who live off welfare women to the mud mothers who carry their children in their hides, the novel brilliantly explores the narcissistic aspect of despair and the tremendous responsibility that comes with physical, spiritual, and mental well-being.
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and tough critical intelligence. Included are tales of mothers and daughters, rebels and seeresses, community activists and aging gangbangers, as well as essays on film and literature, politics and race, and on the difficulties and necessities of forging an identity as an artist, activist, and black woman. It is a treasure trove not only for those familiar with Bambara's work, but for a new generation of readers who will recognize her contribution to contemporary American letters.
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473591783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison 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 uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who called Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473591783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison 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 uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who called Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410341747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410341747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
Author: Joe Meno
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810124246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Novelist, music journalist, and playwright Meno writes squarely in the American tradition of wringing large effects from small change, revealing the subtlety in the broad stroke and conveying complexity with seeming simplicity.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810124246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Novelist, music journalist, and playwright Meno writes squarely in the American tradition of wringing large effects from small change, revealing the subtlety in the broad stroke and conveying complexity with seeming simplicity.
Ice
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The story of the storm went like this: it was so cold that the neighborhood families burned anything they could to stay warm. The mayor arranged an emergency school bus to get the kids to school. But only the children worried about how the dogs were holding up. “Ice” exhibits the commitment to storytelling and the intersection between fiction and politics that made Toni Cade Bambara one of the most important voices of her generation, and an advocate of recognition for African American women writers. A selection from Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, a posthumous collection of Bambara’s uncollected writings, included here with a loving preface by Toni Morrison—a discussion of her relationship with Bambara and the unprecedented “heart cling” of her fiction. An eBook short.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The story of the storm went like this: it was so cold that the neighborhood families burned anything they could to stay warm. The mayor arranged an emergency school bus to get the kids to school. But only the children worried about how the dogs were holding up. “Ice” exhibits the commitment to storytelling and the intersection between fiction and politics that made Toni Cade Bambara one of the most important voices of her generation, and an advocate of recognition for African American women writers. A selection from Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, a posthumous collection of Bambara’s uncollected writings, included here with a loving preface by Toni Morrison—a discussion of her relationship with Bambara and the unprecedented “heart cling” of her fiction. An eBook short.