| Miss Muriel and Other Stories Contributor(s): Petry, Ann (Author), LeMieux, Jamilah (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0810135566 ISBN-13: 9780810135567 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - Women - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2017009913 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A young black girl watches as her aunt's multiple suitors disrupt her family's privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family's growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry's stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s. |