| Reena and Other Stories: Including the Novella Merle Contributor(s): Marshall, Paule (Author) |
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ISBN: 0935312242 ISBN-13: 9780935312249 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 Annotation: This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 83016592 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.38" W x 7.92" (0.59 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her muses--women who fought back against oppression and invisibility using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word. Such women appear in her luminous short stories, which travel from Brooklyn to Barbados and back again. |