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Brown Girl, Brownstones

Brown Girl, Brownstones( )
Author: Marshall, Paule
ISBN:978-0-486-46832-7
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:Dover Publications, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." -- Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." -- The New Yorker.

Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Women
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Native American
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 21.3 x 2 cm
Book Weight:0.272 Kilograms
Author Biography
Marshall, Paule (Author)
Paule Marshall was born on April 9, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. She received a B.A. in English literature from Brooklyn College in 1953. She worked briefly as a librarian before joining Our World magazine.

Her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, was published in 1959. Her other novels include The Chosen Place, the Timeless People; Daughters; and The Fisher King. She is also the author of two collections of short fiction: Soul Clap Hands and Sing, which received the National Institute of Arts Award, and Reena and Other Stories. She has received several awards including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and the Columbus Foundation American Book Award for Praisesong for the Widow in 1983.

Paule Marshall passed away on August 12, 2019 at the age of 90.

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