Reynolds Price
4) Kate Vaiden
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Kate is in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 216
Language
English
Description
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...
Publisher
SNI/SI Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This documentary recounts the role of the Federal Writers Project as the largest cultural experiment in the nation's history. Program focuses on the role played by writers who recorded local and oral histories all over the nation, many finding national acclaim as a result.