Glorious(1st Edition)
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Bernice L Mcfadden
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ISBN: 1936070111, 978-1936070114
Book publisher: Akashic Books
Book Price $0 : Award-winning Novelist Bernice McFadden's Highly Anticipated New Historical Novel Set Amidst The Harlem Renaissance. Glorious Was A Finalist For The 2011 NAACP Image Award For Fiction. â??McFaddenâ??s Lively And Loving Rendering Of New York Hews Closely To The Jazz-inflected City Of Myth. . . . McFadden Has A Wonderful Ear For Dialogue, And Her Entertaining Prose Equally Accommodates Humor And Pathos.â? â??New York Times Book Review â??Bernice L. McFaddenâ??s Novel Glorious, Which Starts With A Bang-up Prologue, Has A Strong Main Character (based In Part On Zora Neale Hurston), Hard-driving Prose, And Historic Sweep Of Several Decades, Including The Years Of The Harlem Renaissance, Which Has Always Fascinated Me.â? â??Jane Ciabattari, National Book Critics Circle President Glorious Is Set Against The Backdrops Of The Jim Crow South, The Harlem Renaissance, And The Civil Rights Era. Blending Fact And Fiction, Glorious Is The Story Of Easter Venetta Bartlett, A Fictional Harlem Renaissance Writer Whose Tumultuous Path To Success, Ruin, And Ultimately Revival Offers A Candid And True Portrait Of The American Experience In All Its Beauty And Cruelty. It Is A Novel Informed By The Question That Is The Title Of Langston Hughesâ??s Famous Poem Harlem: "What Happens To A Dream Deferred?" Based On Years Of Research, This Heart-wrenching Fictional Account Is Given Added Resonance By Factual Events Coupled With Real And Imagined Larger-than-life Characters. Glorious Is An Audacious Exploration Into The Nature Of Self-hatred, Love, Possession, Ego, Betrayal, And, Finally, Redemption.
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