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Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement

An Anthology

Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement( )
Contribution by: Updike, John
Coleman, Val
Brown, Rosellen
Edwards, Junius
Grooms, Anthony
Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne
Martin, Lee
Petesch, Natalie
Thelwell, Michael
Walker, Alice
Baldwin, James
Bennett, Lerone
Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean
Cassill, R. V.
Dumas, Henry
Oliver, Diane
Packer, Z. Z.
Thompson, James W.
Welty, Eudora
Williams, Joan
Editor: Whitt, Margaret Earley
ISBN:978-0-8203-2851-5
Publication Date:Nov 2006
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $39.00
Book Description:

These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs.

Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.558 x 23.495 x 2.388 cm
Book Weight:0.491 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Contribution by)
American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University, which he attended on a scholarship, in 1954. After graduation, he accepted a one-year fellowship to study painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. After returning from England in 1955, he worked for two years on the staff of The New Yorker. This marked the beginning of a long relationship with the magazine, during which he has contributed numerous short stories, poems, and book reviews.

Although Updike's first published book was a collection of verse, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), his renown as a writer is based on his fiction, beginning with The Poorhouse Fair (1959). During his lifetime, he wrote more than 50 books and primarily focused on middle-class America and their major concerns---marriage, divorce, religion, materialism, and sex. Among his best-known works are the Rabbit tetrology---Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1988). Rabbit, Run introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as a 26-year-old salesman of dime-store gadgets trapped in an unhappy marriage in a dismal Pennsylvania town, looking back wistfully on his days as a high school basketball star. Rabbit Redux takes up the story 10 years later, and Rabbit's relationship with representative figures of the 1960s enables Updike to provide social commentary in a story marked by mellow wisdom and compassion in spite of some shocking jolts. In Rabbit Is Rich, Harry is comfortably middle-aged and complacent, and much of the book seems to satirize the country-club set and the swinging sexual/social life of Rabbit and his friends. Finally, in Rabbit at Rest, Harry arrives at the age where he must confront his mortality. Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for both Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest.

Updike's other novels range widely in subject and locale, fro



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