| A Short Walk Contributor(s): Childress, Alice (Author), Jennings, La Vinia (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1558615326 ISBN-13: 9781558615328 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Famed dramatist and author Alice Childress portrays her protagonist's "short walk" through life. During the early half of the twentieth century, Cora James experiences political movements, the easy life of dealing poker in a Harlem card parlor, and the more grueling demands of the vaudeville circuit. She emerges as the woman of stature she always vowed to become. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006932405 |
| Series: Classic Feminist Writers |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.1" W x 8.48" (0.91 lbs) 358 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Short Walk is a sweeping epic novel, which captures the movement of black Americans from the rural south to the urban north. Cora James, born to a black woman who has had a love affair with a white man, grows up poor in South Carolina, marries an abusive--albeit, wealthy--preacher, and escapes from him by going north to Harlem. There she earns money dealing cards and performing in a number of traveling vaudeville shows. She survives the Great Depression, and experiences life as a wife, mother, lover, actress, and independent businesswoman. Torn between befriending Filipino and white neighbors, and the view of the Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey movement, Cora survives divisive politics and learns that since Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave... it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. |