| Gorilla, My Love Contributor(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679738983 ISBN-13: 9780679738985 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North CaroLina. 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 o 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91058065 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. 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. |